Unions For Women
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UNIONS FOR WOMEN #LWDLiverpool24
Meeting and reception. Accessible venue near ACC.
Jess Phillips MP
Tracy Gilbert MP
Dr Sara Reis Women’s Budget Group
Selma Taha Southall Black Sisters
Kiri Tunks FiLiA Unions for Women Project
Chair: Ann Henderson
Labour's commitment to improving trade union rights and representation in the workplace benefits all workers. Many policies are of significant benefit to women, such as maternity rights; women's health at work; tackling pay discrimination; developing flexible working policies; training and education for women at work; and working for freedom from sexual harassment, violence and exploitation in the workplace.
But too many women still remain disengaged or inactive in their unions.
Join us to discuss how to protect rights already won, and how to build a trade union movement that really works for women.
Venue
The venue is fully accessible with a licensed bar. Tickets include a light buffet.
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Tickets
Tickets are non-transferable. We reserve the right to ask for ID so please bring a driving licence, bank card etc.
On arriving at the venue please have your tickets available to show on your phone.
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Labour Women's Declaration - where next?
Join Reem Alsalem UN Special Rapporteur, Sonia Sodha The Observer, Dr Anna Hutchinson Clinical psychologist & Tonia Antoniazzi MP (chair).
13:30 Sunday 22nd Sep I Conference Centre
COME AND FIND US
You can find the Labour Women's Declaration stall in the Exhibition Centre (J2q1). Come and say 'hello', find out more about the issues facing women and girls, and how you can get involved with our campaign.
POP UP SESSIONS WITH POLICY EXPERTS
We are thrilled to announce we will be hosting a busy timetable of pop up briefings at our stall. Come and have a 1-2-1 briefing! For the schedule and to read more about our policy experts visit our website here.
ABOUT LWD
The Labour Women’s Declaration is the work of a movement started in autumn 2019 to raise the profile of women’s sex-based rights within the Labour Party and wider socialist movement.
A core group of women rallied the support of 300 Labour Party activists and supporters to be founding signatories of the declaration. Thousands have now signed and more signatories are welcome.
Made in the form of a petition, the declaration is in response to moves which many fear threaten to erode and water down rights that women campaigned long and hard to achieve.
Concerns arose after Labour made commitments in its 2017 General Election Manifesto to reform to the Gender Recognition Act (GRA). Many believe the proposals would have a detrimental effect on women’s sex-based rights – particularly the right to single-sex facilities such as hospital wards, toilets and changing rooms and also services for survivors of domestic violence and rape.
The 2019 manifesto included a commitment to ‘ensure that the single-sex-based exemptions contained in the Equality Act 2010 are understood and fully enforced in service provision’. Yet it also included a further commitment to reform the GRA – without any mention of the need to consider how these two commitments might contradict each other.
Supporters of the Labour Women’s Declaration continue to campaign for women’s sex-based rights to be maintained and protected and for freedom from abuse, intimidation or censure as they do so.
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