India: Women dairy workers form action committee to fight discrimination and precarious employment

On 2 July 2011, delegates to the National Conference of Women Dairy Workers reported that women workers in the world’s largest dairy industry face wage discrimination, excessive working hours, increased night work, denial of opportunities for promotion, precarious employment, and access to even the most basic facilities such as separate toilets and changing rooms.

Workplaces free from sexual harassment and violence

For all our women members in the hotel and restaurant sector around the world it is reassuring to see that in a unionized hotel in New York, the right to a workplace free from sexual harassment is taken seriously.

Young women leaders in CTSWF trained

On May 14-15, the IUF AP and CTSWF Women's Committee held a May Day Seminar and Training in Basic Trade Unionism in Phnom Penh.

Pia Stalpaert first woman president of CSC Alimentation et Services

On March 18, retiring president Louis De Prins was succeeded by Pia Stalpaert in the leadership of the Belgian food & services union, CSC Alimentation et Servies. Pia is the first woman president of the union.

At the EFFAT Congress in 2009, Pia was elected as a member of the EFFAT Management Committee and in November 2010 as a chair of its Women's Committee. She has been actively involved in defending domestic workers' rights both through her union and in the ILO discussions on a Convention for domestic workers. Read more about the organizing experiences of CSC Alimentation et Services in the previous article.

Domestic workers increase representation in CSC Food union in Belgium

CSC-Alimentation & Services is the domestic workers representative union in Belgium

As the trade union responsible for the domestic service sector, the food and service workers’ union, CSC-Alimentation & Services, has always striven to defend the interests of domestic workers. Domestic workers today do not always have the same rights as other workers. Among key actions to improve their status, the following are of particular note:

March 8 rally in Karachi

Women members from the local Coca Cola plant affiliated to the National Federation of Food Beverage and Tobacco Workers, were among the 2000 women who participated in the March 8 rally in Karachi, Pakistan. The rally was organized jointly by trade unions, incl the IUF Pakistan office, NGOs and Human Rights organizations.

Women Workers fighting precarious employment

At the Asia/Pacific regional food & beverage conference held in Kuala Lumpur on 5-6 August, 2010,a joint presentation on "Women workers and precarious work" was given by Ok -Soon, Cheong, IUF Korea Liasion officer, Premjai Jaikla (Yong), IUF Thai officer, and Saima Querishi, IUF Pakistan Women/TNC organizer. They gave interesting examples on women workers' struggles and victories.

The Women’s project makes headway in the West African countries

National co-ordinators of the IUF Women’s project in French speaking West Africa met in Dakar, Senegal, from 6 to 10 December to evaluate the 2010 results and plan for activities in 2011.

CBA training workshop in Cambodia

From 11-13 December training workshops on collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) for women union leaders in the hotel and catering industry were held in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, by the IUF Asia-Pacific and the Cambodian Tourism and Service Workers' Federation (CTSWF). A total of 29 women leaders from 11 unions participated in the workshops.

Vital victory for PC Hotel Workers' Union

After eight years legal battle the labour appellate tribunal Sindh reinstated NASREEN RESHAD (Ms), a vice president of PC Hotel Workers Union with all back benefits. Nasreen was working at the health club of the Pearl Continental Hotel Karachi.