Fi. A fortnignt ago they walked out, and they have since voted unanimously to continue the strike and keep up a regular picket rota on all entrances to the factory. They have also organised a march around local factories to publicise their case (another is planned for this week).
he suike was made oscara rew days after they came out, but so far the men, also AUEW members, are still working - apart from a one-day stoppage on 2 June. Yet convenor John Inwood originally assured them that the men would come out as soon as the WOMENS WA are going to stick it to the end', commented one striker. They have already dealt a sharp blow to the popular idea of women workers, voiced by one Trien manager *oh, they won't turn up for a picket' In fact, women workers have shown their militancy in a series of strikes against inequality over the past few months: at Dunlop Engineering, Orlake Plastics, East Coast Plastics, ete. They are determined to be treated as an equal part of the workforce and not as a pool of cheap labour which can be hired and fired at will. actually to mean anything.
Action should also be taken by all those unions and organisations that support the Working Women s Charter, in accordance with the aims of the campaign to generalise all struggles on women's rights: * send money to the strike fund; * resolutions of support; * solidarity stoppages.
We must smash the idea that the employers are doing women a favour by employing them and that they should be grateful for the chance to be exploited. In a flagrant violation of the most
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