Friday 5 March 2010

International Women’s Day, protect women in our universities supply chain…


What you thought that the naked photo shoot was it… campaign over…nah this shit is ongoing…

The Vice chancellor is reading through all his massive piles of letters from us… mulling all this over and of course staring at our naked bodies, Fabian gave him a copy of our naked pictures.

This Monday international women’s day we are going to be giving him a gentle reminder about what this all about, get for workers the basic independent protection systems that we all take for granted.

Why women’s day??? well studies show that women are amongst they three most vulnerable groups in the work place along with ethnic minorities and foreign born. Not mention 90% of the workers in sweatshops are women.

And there are some outstanding abuses of women’s rights goings such as companies requiring pregnancy tests upon applying for employment, forcing workers to take contraceptives, paying women less, demoting or firing for maternity leave.

And there are other problems groups like the Suman group in Bangladesh in face of its women workers attempting to form the first women led union in Bangladesh it lobbied the government to make women led unions illegal and used there legal clout to get the five women arrested.

So this Monday at 2:30 we are going to be delivering our massive petition, which has been symbolically written on T-shirts, to the Vice chancellor to protect women and women’s rights in our supply chain.

We are meeting in the guild at 2:30 in the common room in the guild of students and we go from there to Vice Chancellors office.

The more people come out in the delegation the more impressive it looks and the bigger impact it will have on the vice chancellor and his pro vices so please do come out.

Any questions please do call or text me on my mobile 07988056867

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