LIKE LAST year's Women's TUC, this conference will be split into two parts. one in which affiliates submit resolutions and amendments for voting, and the other with a free discussion.
Last year's discussion was around how unions recruit and organise women workers: Following on, this year's discussion is on how, having recruited women, unions can become more relevant to them, and on what ways can be The 67th Women's TUC Conference, on the theme of Women in the Unions: the from March 12 -14. used to make them moro Bective.
Although in theory it is a good idea to have some free discussion, it would have been better if the conference had been extended by a day, rather than restricting the resolution based part of the conferCUCC There are resolutions on most of the main issues facing working women, including:
* equal rights at work, childcare, bullying and violence at work, workloads, working hours, the balance berween work and family life, homeworking, the recruitment of agency workers, feminisation of * women's representation at the Trades Union Congress • women's rights * the double disadvantage of black women *disability * the welfare state, benefits, the NHS, women's health, transport pension rights for women and casualised workers BY THE CATERTRONT