Tag: trade unions

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Educate the young so that our future workers understand their rights

Image of EIS campaign placard, stating Pay Attention
By Tanya Rhodes This blog was borne from asking my nine-year-old daughter whether she understood why her teacher, along with thousands of others across Scotland, would be going on strike on Thursday November 24th, in the first such industrial...
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Campaigning for equal pay – 50 years on

Professor Louise Jackson, presenting to the STUC Women's Conference on the trajectory of media representation of workplace sexual harassment
By Hazel Conley, Frances Galt, Louise Jackson and Tanya Rhodes The ‘Gender Equalities at Work’ project team was delighted to attend the Scottish Trades Unions Congress (STUC) Women’s Conference in Glenrothes, 31 October to 1 November 2022, to discuss...
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IWD2022: Revisiting the 1968 Ford Dagenham Dispute (again)

by Hazel Conley In the first of our posts marking International Women’s Day 2022, Professor Hazel Conley looks at some of the beliefs and arguments surrounding the dispute by women sewing machinists in the Ford Dagenham plant in 1968,...
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New podcast! “In Conversation with Sarah Boston”

As a follow up to the launch of Women’s Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries by Dr Frances C Galt – a discussion event which we were delighted to...
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