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The Spokeswoman Vol. 2, No. S April 30, 1!H2 an Independent Monthly Newsletter of Women's News \ I The Spokeswoman Vol. 2, No. S April 30, 1!H2 An independent monthly newsletter of women's news "EQUALITY OF RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED BY THE UNITED STATES OR BY ANY STATE ON ACCOUNT OF SEX." On March 22, due to the inde­ fatigable and coordinated efforts of hundreds of feminists across the country, the Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment by a vote of 84-8. Hawaii ratified the ERA several hours after it passed in the Senate. Now at least 37 more state legislatures must ratify the ERA before it will become part of the Constitution. Feminists are urged to launch a letter-writing campaign to your state House and Senate Majority and Minority leaders urging immediate state ratification. CHILD CARE A unique and important action organization has developed in Chicago to struggle for the rights of women over the issue of child care. The Action Committee for Decent Childcare (ACDC) now has several hundred members strung across metropolitan Chicago. ACDC includes women who need child Action Committee care, who work in child care centers or who belong to community organizations actively working on For Decent Childcare the issue. They use a multi-level approach, combining research, negotiation, service and direct action. It is a citywide organization with black and white women from many different types of communities and backgrounds. In the struggle to meet women's concrete needs, they have found unity across many of the barriers which traditionally have divided women. Since they began thay have a) forced the city to review all licensing cases and incorporate many of their specific revisions, b) opened up the issue of child care through public hearings and media publicity, c) organized community groups to pressure local officials on the issue and d) successfully defended several centers and tot lots against arbitrary or politically-motivated government attack. ACDC is now developing a network of chapters which include parents and single women and of child care councils, which focus on people working in childcare centers. Each chapter or council is repre­ sented on the policy-making steering committee. The steering committee is beginning to discuss alliances and joint campaigns around such related issues as women's health and employment. The ADCD organizers see the group as "a model through which women can come together to fight for and win some power over their lives and can make their institutions responsible to them. According to ACDC, "this model begins with having an overall vision- universal, free, parent-controlled, 24-hour childcare. It converts that vision into concrete and winable objectives or reforms that will do three things: I) make things somewhat better in reality, 2) build a base of organization that will give women a sense of their own power and 3) somewhat alter the control of irresponsible institutions over women. This strategy combines the needs of both realist and idealist. We have chosen a direct action approach because we feel that people learn from doing. Rights are never given, but are only real when they are fought for and won." The women hope their successes with child care in Chicago will spark other women across the country to develop direct action organizations. Some of the ACDC members are willing to help train others interested in learning the skills they have developed. Contact: Heather Booth, ACDC, 5006 South Dorchester, Chicago, Illinois 60615 (Tel: 312-538-3063). The Spokeswoman is an independent monthly newsletter published at 5464 South Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill. 60615. (Tel: 312-667-3745). Subscription price is $7 per year by individual check and $12 per year by institutional check. Copyright €) 1972 by The Spokeswoman. Material from this newsletter may be used as long as The Spokeswoman (including name, address and cost) is credited. Editor and publisher: Susan Davis. Office manager: Miriam Desmond. Circulation manager: Sandy Contreras. Women's studies editor: Janice Law Trecker. Printer: Ruby Bailey. EMPLOYMENT "After a month and a half of maintaining a picket line in the worst of winter weather, the Harvard Square Waitresses' Union and their supporters feel that a settlement with Cronin's Restaurant could be imminent," reports the latest issue of Eastern Massachusetts NOW News. All but three of the Harvard Square waitresses at Cronin's, a restaurant in Harvard Square, have been on strike since early December. Waitresses Union Mr. Cronin has been "very reluctant" to enter serious negotiations although he has recognized the group as a legitimate bargaining agent. The waitresses are now in the process of becoming an inde­ pendent union local under the regulations of the Labor Relations Board. The women's demands include an increase in the minimum wage from $.96 to $1.35 an hour, sick pay and overtime pay. Contact: Pat Walch, Harvard Square Waitresses' Union, 689 Green St., Cambridge, Mass. (617-547-6674). Household Finance In a landmark discrimination suit settlement, Household Finance Corp. has agreed to hire more women Settles Sex Suit and nonwhites, pay $125,000 in back wages to an estimated 175 women, give preference to women for "branch representative" spots in HFC's 1280 offices, guarantee blacks, Chicanos and American Indians at least 20 percent of all job vacancies in certain categories, and grant equal borrowing opportunities to blacks, Chicanos and American Indians. 20 Percent Dropoff What's going wrong with administration of the Equal Pay Act? Fiscal 1971 was a record year for paymel)t In Equal Pay found due of corporations to women workers under this act; with the $17-million total almost doubling that for the 5 years before! Yet this year is showing a 20 percent dropoff! In the first four months of Fiscal1971, $5,057,637 was found due to 10,335 employees under the Equal Pay Act. In the same per­ iod of Fiscal 1972, $4,147,413 was found due to 7,704 employees. Does the dropoff have anything to do with the fact that Morag Simchak, long-time overseer of the Equal Pay Division, has been detailed to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance? To urge renewed vigor in EPA administration, contact Horace Menasco, administrator, Wage and Hour Division, D1~pt. of Labor, Washington, D.C. 20210. EDUCAr/ON One hund!:ed.-women employes ofthe Uni.vm-sitv-of-M.ich-igatHecei.ved satar.y.incl'eases. totaUng $94,295 February 28 as the result of reviews of salary equity in academic and non-academic posi­ tions. As we went to press, the University's Commission for Women was working with outside man­ Academic Women agement consultants to develop new classification descriptions and compensation scales for professional Get Smart and administrative staff. Meanwhile, the University Record published excerpts March 20 of the Cluster Reports, a 200-page document which assesses the University's progress on affirmative action. A year ago, the Commission on Women established "a network of volunteer committees representing grouped units throughout the University" called "clusters," which were to review and evaluate affir­ mative action goals submitted by each department. Their resulting report is a milestone in university . at Michigan affirmative action. Contact: Commission, President's Office, U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. at Berkeley The Leagu..e of Academic Women (LAW) and twelve women faculty, non-academic and graduate student plaintiffs filed a federal court sex discrimination suit Feb. 15 in San Francisco against the University of California, Berkeley, and the Regents of the University of California. The 64-page complaint, citing University-gathered and admitted sex discrimination statistics, documents discrimination against women that LAW says "parallels that of Mississippi against blacks." For a copy of the lawsuit and related information, send a $3.50 check to: Marsha Jo Taft, Information Coordinator, LAW, 2700 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California 94704. (Te~l: 415-845-2727). ... at Wisconsin Women from widely separated campuses of the University of Wisconsin are impressing the administration by how "together" they are. A casually-called system-wide meeting of women was so heavily attended that it gave birth to the aggressive Wisconsin Co-ordinating Council of Women in Higher Education. WCCWHE recently presented eleven anti-discrimination proposals to the University administration calling for everything from upgrading jobs commonly held by women to filling 50 percent of all high­ level job vacancies with women. Meanwhile faculty women. angered by a stalemate in getting retro­ active salary adjustments, are considering filing a federal suit. Contact: Joan Roberts, WCCWHE, 243 Education Building, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (Tel: 608-263-2939). r f h t en best men in the divorce courts. LAW&ORDER A new and startlin: repo~t is challenging th: :;:~::~:d c~~~~ere~ :re:::h more limited than is generally States this report, The nghts to support o 'I bl though scant indicates that in practically known and enforcement is very inadequate. The data aval a e, . ' . on all cases the wife's ability to support herself is a factor in determ.nmg the amount of ~~~m~nv, that ahm V Alimony is granted in only a very small percentage of cases; that fathers by and large are contnbutmg less tha~ half Testimony the support of the children in divided families; and that alimony and child sup_port awards are very dlff. icult to collect." For the eye-opening report by the Citizens Advisory Council on the Status ~f Women, entitled A7i'mrmy and Child Support Laws,contact the Women's Bureau, Dept. of Labor,Washmgton, D.C. For the first time in history, women who have experienced divorce have drawn up a bill to c~rrec_t the NOW Announces injustices they see in the existing law. Two of the more flagrant examples are the preS:nt laws f~1lure Model Divorce to give women their just share of the family savings at the time of divorce and to prov1de for their old Reform Bill age, reports the New York NOW Committee which worked with the divorced women to dev:lop the r~­ form bill.
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