1. Women

ETF Women's Committee

The Women's Committee of the European Transport Workers' Federation (ETF). RMT's Janine Booth sits on this Committee, and posts reports of its meetings and activities here. The ETF gender equality website is <a href="http://www.itfglobal.org/etf/women.cfm">here</a>.

Report part 3: ETF Women's Committee meeting, October 2014 - Country and Sector reports

Submitted by Janine on 23 November, 2014 - 17:56

Country Reports

Spain

From 2007, the socialist government introduced equality legislation and a framework to demand action against sexism and harassment. But since then, the situation has been worsened by economic crisis, with equalities driven off the agenda, curbs on collective bargaining, crèches closed, and equality plans dropped.

There has been a “dualisation of the labour market”, a split between secure workers and precarious workers, who are harder to unionise.

ETF Women's Committee - Campaigns and Other Business

Submitted by Janine on 23 March, 2014 - 17:30

More from the ETF Women's Committee meeting on 19-20 March 2014

  • Women's Health and Safety at Work
  • Violence Against Women
  • International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) report
  • Women's representation
  • Membership questionnaire
  • Training package
  • European TUC report
  • Rule changes
  • Study on discrimination
  • Next meeting

    Women's Health and Safety at Work

    • ETF Women's Committee: section and country reports

    Submitted by Janine on 23 March, 2014 - 15:56

    The ETF Women's Committee meeting on 19-20 March 2014 heard the following reports:

    SECTION REPORTS

    Civil aviation
    Unions are campaigning for a non-punitive reporting system, and demanding consistency of workplace rules across all grades, from cabin crew (female-dominated) to pilots (male-dominated).

    Dock/Ports

    • Working in ports is very ‘women-unfriendly’. The unions are raising two main issues: the recruitment of women to port jobs; and improving working conditions for women.

    Report: European Parliament Public Hearing on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality

    Submitted by Janine on 21 March, 2014 - 20:09

    On Wednesday 18 March, the ETF Women’s Committee attended a public hearing on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality, held by the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality. Click this link for event information, including some of the speakers' presentations. The afternoon was divided into two sessions, each addressed by a panel of speakers followed by a question-and-answer session.

    RMT In Europe-Wide Fight to Close the Gender Pay Gap

    Submitted by Janine on 9 December, 2013 - 11:42

    This report was adopted by the RMT Council of Executives at its December Statutory meeting:

    I attended this conference as a member of the ETF Women's Committee, and was the only UK trade unionist present as a delegate. This was the final conference of the 'Bargaining For Equality' project, which we had not, to my knowledge, been aware of until now. The Project sought to address inequality in men's and women's wages, and to identify collective bargaining strategies that would tackle these inequalities.

    Report To RMT Women's Advisory Committee: European Transport Workers Federation Women's Committee Meeting September 2013

    Submitted by rmtlondon on 30 September, 2013 - 14:48

    Our Executive Member for London Transport - Janine Booth, gave a report to the Women's Committee of the European Transport federation in helsinki, in September 2013.

    Violence against women

    Women (and men) workers in Finland's transport industry

    Submitted by Janine on 23 September, 2013 - 11:24

    On the first day of the ETF Women's Committee meeting, several Finnish transport trade unionists attended as guests, including women from the logistics, shipping, rail and salaried sectors. We also had a presentation from Tapio Bergholm, who has written a history of Finnish transport workers. The Finnish member of the ETF Women's Committee is Satu, from the Finnish Seamen's Union, who was elected one of the two Vice-Chairs of the Committee.

    Report on ETF Women's Conference

    Submitted by rmtlondon on 16 June, 2013 - 23:45

    This report on the European Transport Workers Federation Women's Conference has been endorsed by the RMT Executive.

    The ETF Women’s Conference (and Congress) met in Berlin in the 80th anniversary year of the Nazis’ storming of trade union offices and deportation of trade unionists to camps, and of the repression of LGBT venues and communities. There is a temporary display near the Brandenburg Gate on Unter den Linden, and I also visited the memorials to both Jewish and homosexual victims of the Holocaust.