On 2 July 2011, delegates to the National Conference of Women Dairy Workers reported that women workers in the world’s largest dairy industry face wage discrimination, excessive working hours, increased night work, denial of opportunities for promotion, precarious employment, and access to even the most basic facilities such as separate toilets and changing rooms.

On May 14-15, the IUF AP and CTSWF Women's Committee held a May Day Seminar and Training in Basic Trade Unionism in Phnom Penh.

At the EFFAT Congress in 2009, Pia was elected as a member of the EFFAT Management Committee and in November 2010 as a chair of its Women's Committee. She has been actively involved in defending domestic workers' rights both through her union and in the ILO discussions on a Convention for domestic workers. Read more about the organizing experiences of CSC Alimentation et Services in the previous article.

As the trade union responsible for the domestic service sector, the food and service workers’ union, CSC-Alimentation & Services, has always striven to defend the interests of domestic workers. Domestic workers today do not always have the same rights as other workers. Among key actions to improve their status, the following are of particular note:

Women members from the local Coca Cola plant affiliated to the National Federation of Food Beverage and Tobacco Workers, were among the 2000 women who participated in the March 8 rally in Karachi, Pakistan. The rally was organized jointly by trade unions, incl the IUF Pakistan office, NGOs and Human Rights organizations.

National co-ordinators of the IUF Women’s project in French speaking West Africa met in Dakar, Senegal, from 6 to 10 December to evaluate the 2010 results and plan for activities in 2011.

From 11-13 December training workshops on collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) for women union leaders in the hotel and catering industry were held in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, by the IUF Asia-Pacific and the Cambodian Tourism and Service Workers' Federation (CTSWF). A total of 29 women leaders from 11 unions participated in the workshops.

At the evaluation & planning workshop held in Accra, Ghana, from November 28 to December 3, the national women project coordinators reported on many important achievements during 2010.

Rahat Abdullah was elected as Secretary for Women's Affairs. Rahat is a member of the new Coca-Cola union in Lahore formed earlier this year during the global Coca-Cola Pakistan campaign.

IUF Pakistan and the National Federation of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Workers (NFFBTW) held a five-day leadership training program in Karachi on 6-10 December 2010 under the theme “Improving knowledge-improving bargaining power”. The training focused on developing skills for a new generation of union leaders.