IUF Women Workers News http://www.iuf.org/women/ en Copyright 2009 Mon, 04 May 2009 15:47:57 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Domestic Workers Demand Respect and Our Rights!" The international network of Domestic Workers has published a leaflet about the need to mobilise for an international convention for their rights.
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]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2009/05/domestic_workers_demand_respec.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2009/05/domestic_workers_demand_respec.html Domestic Workers Mon, 04 May 2009 15:47:57 +0000 Domestic Workers on the ILO agenda The efforts of the Workers' Group to get Domestic Workers' on the agenda of the International Labour Conference in 2010 were successful.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2008/03/domestic_workers_on_the_ilo_ag.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2008/03/domestic_workers_on_the_ilo_ag.html Domestic Workers Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:46:42 +0000 IUF Gender Equality Guide ALL for ONE = ONE for ALL is the title of the IUF Gender Equality Guide which was published in June 2007.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2008/02/iuf_gender_equality_guide.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2008/02/iuf_gender_equality_guide.html Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:13:07 +0000 Gender Workshop in Ukraine Ukraine Workshop.jpg

A workshop for the women committee of Ukrainian Agro-Industrial Workers Union (AIWU) was organised on January 22-25, within the framework of the programme “Gender equality training for unionists".

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2008/02/gender_workshop_in_ukraine.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2008/02/gender_workshop_in_ukraine.html News from affiliates Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:53:14 +0000 End Violoence against Women Violence against women in all its forms has to be stopped.
A worldwide campaign against gender-related violence started on 25 November, the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/11/end_violoence_against_women_1.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/11/end_violoence_against_women_1.html Health and Safety Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:36:13 +0000 PepsciCo Poland case reported to the International Labour Conference The complaint submitted by Solidarność and the IUF against the government of Poland for its failure to protect workers from sexual harassment was reflected in the report on Application of International Labour Standards at the International Labour Conference in June.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/07/post.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/07/post.html Sexual harassment Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:59:36 +0000 “You have to involve the men so that they understand” Pulane Maine
FAWU is one of the unions with most women members in South Africa, and Pulane Maine is a FAWU First Vice-President. She is also a dairy worker and union shopsteward on a farm in the Free State. In fact, she is the only woman dairy worker on her farm, where she milks cows and helps them to give birth. The other women living on her farm tend to eke out an existence from handicrafts, though with little capital to back them

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/07/you_have_to_involve_the_men_so_1.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/07/you_have_to_involve_the_men_so_1.html Interviews Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:57:58 +0000 News from Cambodia, Indonesia and New Zealand ctswf logo 3.jpgfspm-logo03.jpg

- New leader of CTSWF Women's Committee assists local union to recruit more women members in the airport catering sector in the tourist centre Siem Reap.
- Leaders of FSPM Women's Committee accompany women activist in CBA negotiations in Jakarata and Bandung.
- IUF affiliates in New Zealand join the Coalition for Qualtiy Flexible Work.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/07/news_from_cambodia_indonesia_a_1.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/07/news_from_cambodia_indonesia_a_1.html Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:43:16 +0000 “Women: Let your voice be heard” Dorothea Makhasu is General Secretary of the Hotel, Food Processing and Catering Workers’ Union (HFPCWU) in Malawi. Here she talks of her union’s progress in taking up women’s issues and getting them more involved. It takes time but, once women join, they tend to become more active than men members, in Dorothea’s experience.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/06/women_let_your_voice_be_heard.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/06/women_let_your_voice_be_heard.html Interviews Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:10:20 +0000 Women reinforce the struggle in the aftermath of Indian tea crisis In a meeting held in Calcutta 1-3 June, forty representatives from IUF affiliated unions in the tea sector met to review the situation of the victims of unscrupulous employers.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/06/women_reinforce_the_struggle_i.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/06/women_reinforce_the_struggle_i.html Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:56:58 +0000 Why women’s structures are still needed The Service and Food Workers’ Union Nga Ringa Tota* is an amalgamation of various unions in New Zealand, and so its membership is very diverse, from care workers to food processing to hotels and casinos. Today, about 70% of the members are women, and there is strong women’s representation at all levels in the union. Over half of the regional executives are women, as are over two-thirds of the National Executive. Women’s issues are integral to the union’s agenda, with apparently the agreement of the overwhelming majority of men in the union.

*Nga Ringa Tota is Maori for ‘Busy Hands'

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/06/why_womens_structures_are_stil.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/06/why_womens_structures_are_stil.html Interviews Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:07:34 +0000 ‘Get a Life!’ Unions in New Zealand have become very active on issues of work-life balance. A coalition launched in November 2006, the ‘Quality Flexible Working Hours Coalition’, unites unions with community groups in a campaign for the right under law for workers to request flexible working hours. http://flexihoursnow.wordpress.com

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/06/get_a_life.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/06/get_a_life.html Work-life balance Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:58:18 +0000 Silva Villaverde re-elected president of the IUF Women's Committee Silvia Villaverde, from the Pastry cooks and fast food restaurants workers union FATPCHPYA, Argentina was unanimously re-elected as president of the IUF Women's Committee for another five-year period at the 25th IUF Congress held in Geneva 19-22 March.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/05/silva_villaverde_reelected_pre.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/05/silva_villaverde_reelected_pre.html Wed, 23 May 2007 17:26:25 +0000 Tanzania: "Not just our traditional things" Vicky Kanyoka
Vicky Kanyoka is the Director for Women and Organisation of the Conservation, Hotels, Domestic and Allied Workers’ Union (CHODAWU) of Tanzania.

In July 2006 she was also elected Chair of the IUF African Regional Women’s Committee, and its representative on the Regional Committee.

]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/05/not_just_our_traditional_thing.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/05/not_just_our_traditional_thing.html Interviews Tue, 08 May 2007 16:27:44 +0000 IUF Policy on Sexual Harassment Congress reaffirms IUF policy on Sexual Harassment. To download the document please click here:
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]]> http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/05/iuf_policy_on_sexual_harassmen.html http://www.iuf.org/women/2007/05/iuf_policy_on_sexual_harassmen.html 25th Congress Tue, 08 May 2007 16:23:34 +0000