What type of action do you carry out in favour women workers?
A women’s committee is set up in every company where our union is represented. Its role is to channel all the problems specific to women workers and to discuss them in the meetings with the employers. Our best defenders are ourselves. If there is no female shop steward, the problems specific to women will not be well presented. The women’s committee may, for example, decide to set up a mutual fund within their company to help each other out in case of a birth or a death, so as not to have to bother the employer too much. The employer also benefits from having a women’s committee in the company, because productivity increases when women don’t have problems at work. The women’s committees are also in charge of increasing the membership base. Our motto is “one for ten”: one new member has to try to recruit 10 more. The chairs of the women’s committee from each company come together to form a provincial committee. They help us to formulate national demands addressing women’s issues. What a
