International Woman's Day

[boris1gary]

http://www.wftucentral.org/?p=7323&language=en

On the occasion of the International Working Women’s Day, the Secretariat of the WFTU salutes the working women and expresses its solidarity to their everyday struggles for the improvement of their living and working conditions.

The class-oriented trade union movement internationally, the affiliates and friends of the WFTU have been engaged in national efforts to strengthen the working women’s movement. More women’s committees have been established within the structures of the trade unions in the spirit of the resolutions of the 16th World Trade Union Congress.

According to the Action Plan approved at the 2014 Presidential Council Session in Rome, Italy on February 14-15th, the WFTU has set forth for the 1st World Congress for Working Women to take place by the end of 2014.

We should join these efforts in a World Congress, discuss the difficulties faced, debate on the developments in the workers movement, form a joint platform of demands and coordinate our struggle for the strengthening of the working women’s movement internationally, to lay the ground for further breakthroughs in their rights and conquests.

For the class-oriented trade union movement, for the WFTU, the struggle against the dual exploitation of the working women and the anti-labor reforms that add further burden to them and for the satisfaction of the contemporary needs of the working women have always been a priority.

[chuk_77]

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@boris1gary wrote:

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/dancing-on-the-glass-ceiling-on-international-womens-day-20140307-3...

Dancing on the glass ceiling on International Women's Day

Today is International Women's Day. A year ago, on this day, we had a female prime minister and three women in cabinet. Now 18 men plus Julie Bishop make decisions on our behalf. So much for holding up half the sky.

In Victoria, a senior female government minister has just lost preselection to a less experienced man. Soon a military man will replace our female Governor-General. Women still earn 17 per cent less than their male peers and run 3 per cent of ASX 200 companies.

The Abbott government is appointing mostly male ideologues to key roles. Its paid maternity leave scheme, while welcome, favours higher earners. Women, in general, are less wealthy and have far less superannuation, but the government has meanly axed the $500 super rebate for low earners. It even tried to get low-paid (mostly female) childcare workers to hand back a pay rise.

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wow you make it sound like all educators got the pay rise in the first place

[chuk_77]

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

when is International Men's Day? 

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i just asked OH the same question

[boris1gary]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

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@boris1gary wrote:

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/dancing-on-the-glass-ceiling-on-international-womens-day-20140307-3...

Dancing on the glass ceiling on International Women's Day

Today is International Women's Day. A year ago, on this day, we had a female prime minister and three women in cabinet. Now 18 men plus Julie Bishop make decisions on our behalf. So much for holding up half the sky.

In Victoria, a senior female government minister has just lost preselection to a less experienced man. Soon a military man will replace our female Governor-General. Women still earn 17 per cent less than their male peers and run 3 per cent of ASX 200 companies.

The Abbott government is appointing mostly male ideologues to key roles. Its paid maternity leave scheme, while welcome, favours higher earners. Women, in general, are less wealthy and have far less superannuation, but the government has meanly axed the $500 super rebate for low earners. It even tried to get low-paid (mostly female) childcare workers to hand back a pay rise.

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wow you make it sound like all educators got the pay rise in the first place

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I don't know what you mean by "all educators", $19 an hour is pretty low for those that we entrust our very young with. 

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The Abbott government is asking childcare providers to “do the right thing” and hand back $62.5 million given to them to improve wages in the poorly paid sector, in a move slammed by Labor as a broken election promise.

The contracts were signed with the previous government, with the money to be spent in 1100 childcare centres to bolster the $19-an-hour wages of certificate III childcare workers by $3 an hour and the pay of early-childhood teachers by $6 an hour.

[chuk_77]

i know all about it, the way your comment was worded it made it seem that all educators were given the pay rise in the first place, in fact as little as 2% of the industry were awarded it as most centres didnt fit the criteria or didnt apply for it

I just think if you are going to find things to back up your claims make sure they are 100%fact and not a small portion of an industry 

[polksaladallie]

Only about fifteen years ago the document to register a birth had ONLY  'Father's Occupation', no 'Mother's Occupation'.   Unbelievable.

My daughter altered these documents each time to include her occupation.

Can anyone (who has had a child since then) tell me whether her efforts have elicited changes?

[lloydslights]

Is "spinster" still a term used ? I always thought it sounded "sinister."

Polks....I'm really old in regard to registering for particular Certificates and the next one in my existence I won't be around to care!

Does the actual Registered Birth Certificate (piece of paper) reflect your daughter's changes/wishes.

It would be interesting to know, too, if the Father of the infant is the at-home parent (Home Duties)and the mother is the only one to "have an occupation".  

Changing generations.

DEB

[boris1gary]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

i know all about it, the way your comment was worded it made it seem that all educators were given the pay rise in the first place, in fact as little as 2% of the industry were awarded it as most centres didnt fit the criteria or didnt apply for it

I just think if you are going to find things to back up your claims make sure they are 100%fact and not a small portion of an industry 

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maybe you should contact The Age and the SMH, no "claim" was made by me, simply an article posted in regards to IWD. The only "claim" I have made is "Happy IWD" - I don't see anywhere in any article where it states that "100%" or even "all" childcare workers were given the rather small pay increase. It does say that 1100 childcare centres were given the money, I wouldn't know if there were more childcare places but my guess would be yes.

[polksaladallie]

That's an amazing document, Lakeland.  I'll bet there are very few others around.  Worth a bit?

[lakeland27]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

That's an amazing document, Lakeland.  I'll bet there are very few others around.  Worth a bit?

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   i've had some offers. and no, i havent seen another , maybe i should ask a poster on the Antiques an collectibles board who would know the answer.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

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@**meep** wrote:

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@rabbitearbandicoot wrote:

when is International Men's Day? 

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19th of November

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Men%27s_Day

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Thanks Meep. It's not very well publicized, is it?  I'll let 'her-indoors' know that I expect flowers on that day.