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Here to Celebrate Many of the Advancements Made for Women Workers and to Consider How Best to Address the Remaining Challenges Better Work Better Lives for women workers Irish Congress of Trade Unions Women’s Conference 1 & 2 March 2018 Killyhevlin Hotel Enniskillen Irish Congress of Trade Unions Women’s Conference 2018 Better Work Better Lives for women workers Irish Congress of Trade Unions Women’s Conference 1 & 2 March 2018 Killyhevlin Hotel Enniskillen Better Work Better Lives for women workers Thursday 1 March 10.00 Registration and Tea/Coffee Session 2 Women in Unions Session 1 Opening Session 12.00 Motions on Women in Unions 11.00 Welcome and Introduction – EC Report Appropriate Sections/Paragraphs Jacquie White and Margaret Coughlan, Joint Women’s Report of Women’s Committees Committee Chairs Appropriate Sections/Paragraphs Chair of Conference Voting on Motions and Agree Arrangements Committee Sections of Reports Civic welcome 13.00 Lunch and Fringe Events: Councillor Stephen McCann, Chairperson of Fermanagh and 1. The gender dimension of Omagh District Council. Precarious and Insecure Work. Jill Weir, Sororal Greetings, 2. Abortion as a Workplace issue, Fermanagh Trades Council Presentation of research findings. 11.15 General Secretary’s address: 3. Sling the Mesh, the campaign Patricia King, ICTU General for justice for women affected by Secretary. vaginal mesh implants 4. The Women’s Pledge 2018. 4 5 Irish Congress of Trade Unions Women’s Conference 2018 Friday 2nd March Session 3 Session 4 Women and Work Women and Society 14.30 Motions on Women and Work 09.30 Motions on Women and Society Guest Speaker, Caitriona Crowe The Centenary of the Rep- Guest Speaker: Owen Reidy, resentation of the People Act. Assistant General Secretary, ICTU. EC Report Appropriate Sections/Paragraphs EC Report Appropriate Sections/Paragraphs Report of Women’s Committees 10.45 Coffee Break Appropriate Sections/Paragraphs Video message from ETUC Voting on Motions and Agree Confederal Secretary Sections of Reports Montserrat Mir Roca 15.45 Coffee Break Report of Women’s Committees 16.00 Session 3 resumes Appropriate Sections/ Paragraphs Closing Address Voting on Motions and Agree ICTU President Sheila Nunan Sections of Reports 17.30 End of Day 1 13.00 Close of Conference 19.30 Dinner followed by Disco Better Work Better Lives for women workers Introduction Welcome to the 2018 Irish Congress of Trade Unions Women’s Conference - Better Work Better Lives for Women Workers We are here to celebrate many of the advancements made for women workers and to consider how best to address the remaining challenges. In the Republic of Ireland and in Northern Ireland, we are working to ensure that As we listen to guest speakers and debate economic development is based on decency, motions on these and other issues over the equality and solidarity and leads to real coming days, let us be inspired by each improvements in the lives of working families other and rededicate ourselves to our joint right across our island. The challenges facing mission of building workers’ power, reminding such a mission are all too familiar and include: ourselves that women must be central to this fight. • unequal access to jobs; • the persistent problem of low pay and wage Gender equality is needed to strengthen inequality; unions and to build workers‘ power. • the increased incidence of precariousness and job insecurity; We hope that you enjoy the conference and • weakened bargaining power and voice at take part fully in all the discussions so that work; you can return to your union and workplace • inadequate arrangements to reconcile work revitalised in the struggle. and family life; • the erosion of social supports and protection Patricia King - including pensions; General Secretary • the imposition of austerity and attacks on vital public services. 6 7 Irish Congress of Trade Unions Women’s Conference 2018 Motions to the ICTU Joint Women’s Conference 2018 WOMEN AND WORK Further labour market inequalities such as an overall gender pay gap of just over 9%, significant gender pay gaps between and 1. Better Work, Better Lives within sectors and continuing occupational for Women Workers segregation compound the position for women Women’s Committee NI workers. The Women’s Committee commends the NIC- The Women’s Committee pledge’s full support ICTU for their recently launched campaign for the campaign and is committed to working Better Work Better Lives. closely with the Northern Ireland Committee ICTU to realise the campaign objectives. The Women’s Committee endorses the three themes of the campaign, namely, The Women’s Committee recommends the Better Work Better Lives campaign to this The elimination of low pay and the promotion of conference and asks all affiliates to ensure decent work;Investment in public services and that their women activists are fully involved. infrastructure and; 2. Combating Precarious Work The elimination of the 1% pay cap for public sector workers. and Discrimination in the Workplace The Women’s Committee notes that 1/3 of UNISON workers in Northern Ireland are in insecure work while 25% of workers are on or below the Conference notes the publication of ‘Insecure Real Living Wage (as calculated by the Living and Uncertain: Precarious Work in the Republic Wage Foundation). The Women’s Committee of Ireland & Northern Ireland’ (Winter 2017) further notes that women workers are by Congress. This report highlights the growth disproportionately affected by low pay, cuts to in insecure and precarious employment in public services and precarious work with some both jurisdictions over the last decade. In 58% of women in the NI labour market in a the Republic of Ireland, the majority of part- form of employment which is less secure and of time temporary employees are female, and poorer quality than the traditional ‘standard.’ women are at greater risk of being in both Better Work Better Lives for women workers full and part-time temporary employment. 3. Insecure and Precarious In Northern Ireland, approximately 27,700 women are in temporary employment Work compared to approximately 18,000 men, SIPTU with the vast majority of those in part-time temporary employment being women (68%). Conference commends Congress on the publication of the report Insecure & Uncertain’; Conference congratulates Congress for Precarious Work in the Republic of Ireland and producing this analysis and for putting the Northern Ireland in December 2017. Conference focus on the unwelcome growth in precarious notes that this study reveals a disturbing growth work across the island of Ireland. Conference in precarious work practices across the island now calls on Congress and affiliates to produce of Ireland since 2008 further welcomes the a deeper, more detailed, sectoral analysis of continued focus on the issue of precarious work the situation for women in particular, given that Congress maintains. In support of this, that it is clear that they are disproportionately Conference now calls on the Congress Executive and severely impacted by precarious, insecure to redouble its efforts over the coming year to work. This analysis must not only focus on limit the use of precarious contracts in so far as is the nature of their employment relationship, possible, to mitigate the effect of such contracts but also should reprioritise those issues which on workers and to continue its efforts to ensure have been consistently highlighted as barriers that the legislative base underpinning these to justice for women in the workplace. These objectives are as effective as possible. include sexual harassment in the workplace, rampant discrimination regarding to pregnancy 4. Statutory Leave and maternity, the lack of adequate, affordable ASTI childcare and most recently the impact of the menopause on employment. That this conference calls on the ICTU to seek statutory leave for women who have This research must lead to clear calls of experienced miscarriage or stillbirth. actions with employers and Government at the bargaining table. The plan of action on strategic bargaining across all relevant sectors 5. Gender Inequality in the should be informed by the work of women in Finance Sector the Trade Union movement and the Congress Financial Services Union Women’s Committee North and South, with progress reported to the Executive Council on a This conference recognises the fact that regular basis and disseminated to affiliates. banking and financial services has one of the highest gender pay disparities in the Irish 8 9 Irish Congress of Trade Unions Women’s Conference 2018 economy and notes the Morgan McKinley participate on an equal footing with their male Gender Earnings Gap Ireland 2016 report colleagues. which revealed that, what they classified as the Financial Services and Regulators sector, had 6. Women’s Gynaecological the highest gender pay gap in Ireland, standing at 29%. Health and Reproductive Rights in the Workplace. Conference also notes that women make up the GMB majority of staff in the banking and financial services sector and that this group of workers This conference calls on ICTU to actively look have endured job losses, extended working hours into the complex range of issues surrounding and pay restrictions in the past decade due to specific health issues affecting women workers the actions of those at the top of the banks and and the impact these have on the daily lives the failure in regulation. of women at work with a view to developing a guide for best practice in the workplace. Conference supports the call by the Financial Services Union for radical change to ensure Women’s gynaecological health issues that equality and fairness are embedded in range from menstruation and menstrual the pay and career structures of banks and irregularities through to the menopause to financial services companies, and supports name but a few. such measures as: Whilst policies cover maternity and illness Increased representation for women at Board during pregnancy, we do not always have level. adequate policies that cover the full gambit of pregnancy related issues particularly when the The introduction of grade comparisons within pregnancy is terminated.
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