Various motions at this year's TUC call for a campaign against racism, arguing jumping on the band-wagon. He recenthat the given a unemployment was among women"
of the bosses and adult jobless, 38,200 were of Public Emunemployed. a planned and But the and will mean further standards Have to work For today legislation, Government's Child Benefit Scheme. are deemed to be less essential'.
society home, that has But latch-key kids, and the radio is full of 'useful" money pittance.
raphy, divorce, and (last but not least) abortion-all of which, for the ArchWITH THE PUBLICATION of this month's unemployment figures, the Press Association news agency reported that the Government felt an 'encouraging factor is that in the last three months most of the increase in So the Government is 'encouraged' that women are becoming unemployed twice as fast as men; that of this month's total rise of 38,520 in the more WonCH.
And that's just the official figures. Woman's Own in March 1976 estimated that 70 percent of women looking for a job were not registered as ANNE CESEK bishop, reflect the disintegration of the family. He would prefer women to be sent back in droves to 'their rightful place in the home Such ideas can only serve to divide the working class, in the same way as do those which say pull together lads, no more wage increases, get the coun try back on its feet'. But to challenge the traditional view of women is even difficult than challenging clap-trap about 'national interest, because of the way women have been integrated into the labour force. portunity and equal pay are jus few of the preconditions for wome equality. All are integrally linked.
So any campaign against unemplo ment has to take up the demand i woman's right to work, whet that campaign be the Right to Wo march or a recall Assembly on Une ployment. Any local right to w committee, or planning committee i a demonstration or conference fight unemployment, should inclu representatives from the Charter other women's organisation.
Most of all, a policy has to fought for which in guaranteeing working class solution to the cri fully involves women in the fight 1 women's rights-not as some separa secondary issue, but as an issue whi affects the whole working class. I cause it does.
Both the Working Women's Charter a the South-West London Women's Right Work Committee are visiting union bra ches and actones and approacning su ent unions for sponsorship for their m chers on the Right to Work March.
On Thursday, 2 September, the Wor Women's Charter is organising public meeting in the Conway Hall mobilise support for the Right to Wo lobby of the TUC at Brighton on 8 Se tember. On that day a Charter coach w leave York Way-by Kings Cross statior at 9.30 a.m. to take supporters down the lobby.
The same night there will also a Charter public meeting at 7.30 p.m.
the Marlborough Hotel, 4 Princess Stre Brighton on the issue of a woman's rig to work. Among the scheduled speake is Erica Barnett, a NALGO delegate the TUC were saying that it was a bosses' court, a that the Equal Pay Act on which it was bas was an excuse for equality rather than enforcement.
The Tribunal's judgement fully bears ti out. In the words of the AUEW statement, further underlines the serious defects of t Equal Pay Act and illustrates that even whe men and women are working alongside ea other on identical work they are unlikely qualify for equal pay'.
With the Industrial Tribunal's little pie of black theatre thankfully over, the spotlig turns again to winning the dispute. There still work to be done. The blacking of Trico wipers has not yet been organis nationally by 'the AUEW, and no nation