Nor will the concerns unionists be to forefront of Congress. mask 'the true unemployment'.
rate of ONE THING will be a certainty at this year's TUC: there won't be many women delegates.
of women trade But the TUC will be debating some key issues. Positive action for women both in the workplace and in the unions themselves are on the agenda with the engineering union opposing. The Banking Insurance and Finance Únion have tabled a motion expressing alarm at the proposals made in the Rayner Report which discriminates against women and will further level of women's When women are losing jobs at three times the these issues are vital ones to way society portrays women as, tims of gratuitous violence' women to begin to take up these questions. put before the whole labour movement. So too is the in the National Union of Journalists motion 'sex objects or the vicWomen bear the brunt of Tory attacks, in the workplace and in the home. Lack of nurseries, poor housing and health facilities and so on all affect more than men. Even when women surmount all the obstacles and do find a job it is usually low paid. And if that wasn't enough women have to contend with sexual harassment at work and male workers don't think they have the right to work.
On this page we look at two aspects of the problems women face: the implications of the Rayner Report and sexual harassment. Whatever the outcome of the TUC this year the issues women face will not go away. The TÚC and the trade unions have DEGRADING