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CHARTING Photo: Chris Davies (Report)
International Women's Year will see 1 spate of phrase-mongering and resolution passing by the official leadership of the trade union movement as it throws a smokescreen around its total inactivity on the problems facing working women.
On March 8, International Women's Day, the South East Regional Council of the TUC has called a con¡BERATE WE DOI TOU'LL NOLA rising prices and attacks on wages Mary to see how these conferences are being organised so that we can paign forward. en workers will be particularly hit by and the social services. For activists in the Charter campaign it is necessattempt to use them to take the camcommunity.
MEN -C Labour Government on pensions, maternity benefits and so on. And Shirley Summerskill will talk to us about affairs that the trade union leadership feels are none of its business but which the Labour Government can sort out - women in the A few minutes will be allowed for "discussion", the conference will be restricted to trade union delegates, and so nothing disrupts this cosy set-up there will be no resolutions. Trade union branches can, however, submit discussion documents. The conference will probably attract a certain number of rank and file trade unionists but it will not lay the basis for an organised fight back against the attacks being launched on working class living standards.
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By comparison the London Trades Council conference of last May was open to all political groups, women's groups and anyone interested in the fight for women's rights. This could have laid the basis for building a campaign to unite all groups and individuals prepared to organise activity. However this was something the leadership of the Trades Council violently
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