Report: TUC Disabled Workers' Committee meeting, 16 March 2017
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pic: Committee co-Chairs, Sean McGovern and Janine Booth
Campaigning
We have set up campaign working groups to get more work done on key issues:
That National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (UK). I have been a member since 1997, and served on the union's national executive 2011-13.
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pic: Committee co-Chairs, Sean McGovern and Janine Booth
Campaigning
We have set up campaign working groups to get more work done on key issues:
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Click on the attached PowerPoint file to walk yourself through an explanation of the structure of RMT and how women members can raise issues and get involved.
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Click the attached file to scroll through Janine's report on the work of the ETF Women's Committee. This report was presented to RMT Women's Conference on 4 March.
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Janine's speech proposing this motion on the 50th Anniversary of the Abortion Act at RMT Women's Conference 2017.
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Janine proposing a motion at RMT Women's Conference calling on the union to reaffirm its commitment to women's right to choose and access abortion, and to mark the 50th anniversary of the Abortion Act by ensuring that there is no return to the days of backstreet abortions. The motion was carried unanimously.
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Janine proposing a motion to 2017 RMT Women's Conference about women's cancers and work. The motion was carried unanimously.
You can read this speech here, and the resolution here.
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I proper hate those Tube strikers
they've well messed up my day
I'm late for tea at City Hall
I walked most of the way
And then found out the CEO
had nicked my parking bay
On every other day I don't
give them a second thought
They work to run the railway safely?
Nothing of the sort!
I know they're lazy bastards 'cos
I saw the news report
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COUNTRY REPORTS
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Jean-Louis Colson (on the right of the photo) from DG-MOVE - the European Commission's Directorate General on transport - outlined the Commission's work on women and transport, and the consultation it is currently running.
For the Commission, the main 'challenge' is that not enough women work in transport. Only 22% of transport workers are women, across all 28 EU member stations (the Commission's document states that "22% of women work in the transport sector" but this is incorrect; the statistic is as I give it here). It is even more unbalanced in certain transport sectors: road and rail workforces are only 14% women; air transport is a bit better, with 38% women. Jobs within transport are also unbalanced: in the rail industry, 60% of human resources staff are women, but only 3% of drivers.
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Daniela Zlatova of Bulgarian transport trade union FTTUB gave an impressive account of the union's efforts and achievements in involving women.
FTTUB :