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Decent Work, Decent Life for Women Campaign
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CampaignPrevious achievements of
International campaigns for women:
• Increase women membership - up to 150%;
• Increase of women in elected positions;
• Unions strengthen/ prioritise policies/ actions on gender equality at work e.g. maternity protection, child care, pay equity, protection from sexual harassment.
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Global Campaign for Decent Work, Decent Life for Women
Objectives:
• Decent work for women
• Gender equality in trade union structures, policies and activities
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Since the launch of the Campaign on 8 March 2008
• 90 National Centers in 61 Countries joined the Campaign
• Activities focus on: Maternity protection rights Child care facilities, Pay Equity Work – life balance Gender equality in trade unions
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Philippines and UK
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Decent Work
Access to productive work in conditions of freedom, equality, security, and dignity.
The four pillars of Decent Work: 1. Standards and rights at work, 2. Employment creation3. Social protection 4. Social dialogue.
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Indonesia
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Campaign actions
• Gender Equality at the centre of collective bargaining and social dialogue
• More women in elected positions• Significant increase of women
membership rates
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South Korea
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Campaign Actions
Calling for a review of national labour legislation and urging governments to ratify and implement ILO Conventions e.g. :• C. 183, Maternity protection• C. 156, Workers with Family
responsibilities• C. 100, Equal Remuneration• C. 111, Discrimination
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Burkina Faso
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Campaign Actions
• CEDAW (United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women), international statement of women’s rights signed by 185 countries
• The Beijing Global Platform for Action which commits governments to “ensuring that gender perspective is reflected in all our policies and programmes” and the Beijing Declaration which includes ‘Section F’ on Women and the Economy.
• The UN Millennium Development Goals
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Croatia
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Focusing on Key Dates
• 8 March - worldwide publication of the Gender Pay Gap report II• 7 October - 2nd World Day for Decent Work • 25 November - UN Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November.
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ITUC report 2009:Gender (in)equality in the labour market: an overview of global
trends and developments
• The gender pay gap• Women’s position in the labour market
during economic downturns• Violence against women
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Wage Indicator Databasewageindicator.org
• 300,000 individual self-reported surveys in 24 countries
• Argentina Guatemala Poland• BelgiumHungary Russia• Brazil India South Africa• Chile Italy Spain• Denmark Korea Sweden• Finland Mexico Great Britain• France USA Paraguay• Germany The Netherlands
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Belgium
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Pay Gap
• 2008: Global pay gap: 16,5 %
• 2009: Global pay gap: 22 %
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Pay Gap
Examples:
• Brazil 38,5 %• Argentina: 29 %• Mexico 36 %• Paraguay 11 %• Denmark: 12 %• Sweden: 13 %
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Conclusions e.g.
• Earnings between men and women widens with age
• The higher the education– the higher the negative impact
• Trade union membership has a positive influence on the gender pay gap
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Recommendations e.g.
• Need for statistics• Policies & practices: Equal Pay for work of
of equal value • Trade Union policies and actions on
gender equality: at work, in unions• Campaigns to organise women workers –
show benefits of trade union membership
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Spain
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Achievements Current Campaign
Gender Pay Gap Report• World wide media coverage of the first ITUC
report on the Gender Pay Gap on 8 March 2008• Major international organizations/ institutions
start to include the issue into their annual reports (ILO, UN, NGO’s).
• The report is the most hit item on the ITUC website.
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Achievements Current Campaign
• 52nd UN Commission on the Status of Women, March 2008: trade union delegation negotiated successfully to include decent work for women included in the Agreed Conclusions
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Achievements Current Campaign
Decisions for Life Project: • Women in the service sector• Trade union Campaign teams – Web
journalist teams in 14 countries• Cooperation between ITUC – UNI –
WageIndicator Foundation – University of Amsterdam
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Achievements Current Campaign
• Croatia, 2008: the Croatian parliament has approved a new gender equality law
• Australia, 2009: Paid maternity leave for working mothers
• Korea: 2008: Legislation on Equal Employment and support for the Reconciliation of Work and Family
• New Zealand, 2008: introduced legislation for breastfeeding breaks
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Methods used:
• Questionnaire/ Reports – media attention• Coalitions/ networking: women in unions, women
in parliament, NGO’ s• Coordinate with trade union lawyers to prepare
changes/ amendments to labor law/ collective agreements
• Organize discussions in trade unions to develop model clauses on gender equality for collective agreements
• Campaigns
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Next
• 7 October:
World Day for Decent Work• 19-21October:
ITUC Women’s Conference• 25 November:
Stop Violence Against Women• 8 March 2010:
International Women’s Day
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CAMPAIGN WEB PAGE AND E-MAIL LIST
• Campaign webpage: www.ituc-csi.org - click on ‘equality’
• Email list – [email protected]• WageIndicator website: fill in the Survey www.wageindicator.org• Project: www.dfl.wageindicator.org.
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Decent Work, Decent Life for Women Campaign