Internally affiliates adopt policies opposing harassment.
Stewards and officers should be to degl problem in an effective manner.
The membership must be advised that the union is oooosed to sexual harassment and that union officers zu ereasene uraca lo manue uc problem.
Externally - negotiate language in collectiye agreements to provide protection against sexual harassment.
* Develop separate procedure if necessary complaints to ensure protection for une leHLien.
* Insist that the employer issues a statement prohibiting sexual harassment on the job and post this on bulletin boards.
pamphlet women of their rights and warning male supervisors of the repercussions of incidents of this nature.
Sexual harassment is not a joke. Il's an issue that will not go away. The labour movement must recognise the seriousness of problem effectively represent our mem-mbers bers who are its victims.
Employment Protection Act
SECTION 51 of the above Act is meant ATOICCL trade representatives from victimisation -it not under Brent's Labour council this type of A LABOUR government of Ireland. •The first grievance for these hearing YYaN on 7/8 July.
advising closed doors Mason's attempi i0 policy ot movement by "criminal'. and The Tribunal hundred jurors, observers.
give repression in applauded Dy evidence lo the tribunal.
hearing being in Paris witnesses like Prevention of Terrorism Act.
possessing birinday trial for nine months.
vears on ine sole evidence union prepared statement, forced to sign undęr duress.
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las 0 lil quilty flagrant breaches of human rights in the North hearing of the Internationa Tribunsl on Artain's Presence in Ireland was held in Paris at the beginning of the year. The final held CDSENEH assembled in London's Conway Hall Party The tribunal was launched iwo years ago to break the 'wall of silence' surrounding British policy in Ireland. The tribunal aimed to lever open the established by Roy cover up the renression in ihe vorih, through his isolating the Tes s alCt Chatacicrslg was chaired by Labour MP Ernie Roberts. Witnesses gave evidence to an audience of a assessors and The courage of Lily Fitsimmons, a Belfast mother, in coming to Britain first-hand evidence of North. $ u.y Alistair Logan, barrister who presented part of the One of the reasons for the first was the fear Lily would be prevented from coming under The Lily Fitzimmons told her story to a hushed tribunal. She dwelt on the case olT ee SO WIo was mEcracu al the age of 16, released at 18, charged This 19th dISLIS and imprsoned without He was finally sentenced to 15 of a which he was Logan immediately ERNIE ROBERTS MP is leading a campaign for a specia! Labour Party conference on Ireland.
He anneunced this at International Tribunal on Britain's Presence in Ireland.
Roberts, who chaired the first day res ponsibrite ings. spoke of 'the responsibility the organised working class to speak His own constituency in Hackney North has forward a resolution to the next Labour Party conference which notes the 'wall of silence" surounding the role of the British Army, the Specia) Air Services, and the Royal Vister Constabulary. The resolution instructs the party's national executive committee to cail a conference compared this sentence to those given to members of the Ulster Defence Regimeni charged offences.
One UDR soldier, David Stone, charged with the same offence, sentenced to vear's imorisonment, suspended for iwo years. Logan grimly remarked, the British state looks after its own.
Another impressive fealure of the tribunal was the evidence given on the historical, and economic background to the current British intervention in the North.
In particular Ciaran McNally, a lawyer from Dublin, gave a witty and powerful presentation of the history of British policy towards Ireland over the past three centuries.
À member of the jury, made up of delegates trade union labour movement organisations, requested that McNally's speech be published as a service to. the whole labour muvement.
Similarly thorough reports were Micahel Maguire on the glvel Dy economic and social discimination in the North, and by Eileen Fairweather on the special burden which British the on Labour put imperialism imposes on women in the North. similar Publication.
and findings of the Tribunal will be of vital interest to was Ine labour movelcht It closed with a call by one of the AS organisers for an all-out mobilisation for the 12 August demonstration in London.
As Ernie repression has not gone away. Since the publication of the Bennet report on police interrogation methods on 28 March this year, complaints have been registered with the Ulster Office by police surgeons in the North that there is now ever more reason for the labour movement in this country and to say 'Britain out of Ireland now!' Copies of the findings of the Tribunal Wilsham Street, Enclose sae. Money is still needed to publish the proceedings.
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