Vice chairs of the union’s national women’s committee, Tania Earnshaw and Deborah Yapicioz reflect on the issues worth highlighting this International Women’s Day
2022 National Womens Conference
Christina McAnea says in speech to national women’s conference that battle continues for fair and equal pay
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Delegates hear that, after promising last July to introduce protections against harassment in the workplace, there has been no progress from the UK government
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Christina McAnea addresses women’s conference and stresses the need for the union to be more representative of its million female members
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Christina McAnea will tell national women’s conference that new laws needed to tackle bosses who don’t protect staff
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Delegates describe struggling to survive on a low income as being ‘on the hamster wheel of life’ and ‘trying to glue our families together with Pritt Stick and a pair of old shoelaces’
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‘And remembering to breathe’ – delegates detail the added burdens that the health crisis has placed on women workers
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Opening debates see delegates discuss how to increase proportionality within the union, particularly for part-time women workers, who represent a large part of the membership
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