THE TORIES are limbering up for a new attack on rights.
Secretary James Prior, who is in charge of Social Services, want to see women give up their jobs and return to the kitchen sink.
Rising crime, violence, and terrorism are the product of the 'traumatic separation' during Second according to Jenkin.
Prior has therefore come legislative goods. workers will be allowed to Protection proposals go through. Female workers will be denied the automatic right to return to work after having a baby.
Small companies, which number about a million in Britain, will employees at any time during their first two JOURNALISTS Against Corrie has | sparked a new trade union initiative in the fight to protect women's abortion rights. Women media workers are attempting to raise awareness in the National Union of Journalists about the grave threat posed by the Corrie Bill.
'All the media's recent abortion horror stories have been discredited by DHSS inquiries. Journalists ought to be concerned with fact not fiction, said Sue Landau of the Journal.
The group has produced a special information pack for news editors on.
all national and morning papers.
explodes myths, spells out the positive effects of the 1967 Abortion Act, and puts the case against restrictions.
To build for the 28 October demo JAC, along with the NUJ Equality Working Party and Fleet St Women's Voice, is holding a public meeting aimed NUJ and members. The meeting will take place Wednesday Brides' Small Hall, Bride Lane, EC4 at 7.30pm. For further info. about JAC contact: Jenny Hillmorton Rd, London 01-607 2117) or Sue Landau 01-340 2424]. Students STUDENTS Against Corrie has also been launched.
students representing different political tendencies in the National Union of Students have decided to mobilise support by producing an action pack, and Patrick Jenkin, disruption, of children from their War, up with the escape from the years of Act if Prior's be allowed to sack Hornsey numbers.
Hackney NATSOPA Öctober in St. mailing to local trade unions.
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familiar pictures They found wide range campaign, demanded to know if their trading. A worker who has the audacity to bring a case agginst an employer which is not proven may be faced with a fine. Schedule Act, employers to eliminate pockets of low pay, is to scrapped. And just organisations might upset this field day for the bosses, it is also suggested that the law which TUC leaflet to order 5,000 to be sions. distributed to factories in the area women work in sizeable HACKNEY NALGO has decided to mainstream foot the bill for the CAC group's National Abortion Campaign found their public meeting on 20 September interrupted by five male SPUC supporters with the now of dead themselves roundly signatures condemned by two women new to the who accused them caring little about women's lives and moral qualms about abortion extended to cases of rape. Predictably they got no forces should be relaxed.
which urges case ) workers' speaking to 60 people at a Greenwich Abortion Campaign Against Corrie public meeting on 25 September.
Glenda Jackson has donated £90 to the local campaign and local MPs Guy Barnett and John Cartwright have also expressed their support.
IGWO RATHER disheartening news from the TGWU conference [the largest trade union in Britain]: the abortion resolution was not taken although the chair did allow speakers on a non-contentious motion about penWe urge abortion rights suppor!ers in the T & G to get moving and send a letter of protest from their branch, supporting Branch 6/522's motion and forcing the leaders of the TGWU to get in line with the of the trade union movement in the Campaign Against Next?
WHAT NEXT? Socialist Challenge wants to hear from your trade union, women's group and we'd particularly like to find out how you're going out to get for the CAC petition against Corrie. CAC's target is half a million — so you'd better get moving.
After the demo on 28 October (assemble 11.30am Reformers Tree, Park, lor march lo rally- al Trafalgar Square at 2.45pm) the next NEED THEIR employers to recognise trade unions Women, concentrated in low paid jobs in shops, laundries, hairdressers and the catering industry, will be clobbered by this legislation if it goes through. It will rob them of the minimal rights that they have won as workers.
Not that these rights offer much protection. Needed domestic slaves alleys of powerless tribunals.
rank and file workers to women.
The Tories' women have for positive segregation, In short.
workers' wages.
union did When women are needed in the workforce cheap later maternity leave and so e - even to maternity leave and some limited access to birth control. But when a major economic recession occurs, the bosses government will ruthlessly scrap those 'frills' and urge women to return to the home a Thatcher's mob are likely to have their time cut out, however. Women are clinging to their jobs, even if only as pari-time workers, because they can't survive without them. And they are also turning to their unions to protect them. Since the late 1960s, the number of women in trade unions has increased by 91 per cent.
Under the Labour government, womer began to fight back against the cuts and in defence of their living standards, despite the attempt to divert their struggles into the blind 1 Де abortion struggle has begun to change attitudes among new proposals have thrown down the gauntlet not only to women but to the whole labour movement. A defensive strategy is not enough. In addition to the right to work, the right to a decent living standard and that means an offensive struggle action break job give preferential training, and to ensure childcare provision.
we hope to ensure women a permanent place in the workplace so that they cannot be used again as a 'reserve army' by the order to depress the level of all order them to be
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kitchen sink!
CAMPAIGN NEWS! said Jo Richardson, MP for Barking A WOMANS RIGHT TO CHOOSE
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