Challenge to TUC

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MISS PIGGY should have been here at this hour! Union leaders have a notoriously dismissive attitude towards the people who pay their wages, even more so if they happen to be women. So it's nice to see even a gesture of protest at the sexism and complacency that's rife in the all-boystogether jamboree of the TUC.

Alan Fisher of NUPE, he of the leonine rhetoric and mouse-like deeds, is the leader of a union with an overwhelmingly female membership. So his fatuously sexist comment about women needing large handbags was particularly galling to the few women delegates there. Ivy Cameron of the bank workers' union rounded off her speech on women's unemployment by presenting Fisher with a large shocking pink shopping bag.

Nor were other delegates exempt. After pointing out that women had been in the forefront of industrial struggles, she asked why any delegate should sound surprised at this. Alan Fisher Did chey believe, with Martin Luther, that men had larger brains for thinking and womer had larger hips for childbearing?

'Well. I've seen some big bums arrund tones affected by the ruling on these amendments. We shall be holding a WAC fringe meeting at Annual Labour Party Conference on Friday 21 september at 4 pm at Queen's Hotel, King St., Brighton.

This will be an introductory meeting for women delegates. (and visitors) to Conference. There will also be a briefing on what women delegates can do to oppose the CAC's ruling which we strongly urge women delegates (especially those from CLPs whose amendments on positive discrimination were ruled out: of order to attend.

*Oppose the CAC ruling on positive discrimination!

*Support the : reference back - fight for a place for women on the conference agenda!

Further details from Heather Gaebler, WAC Secretary, 10 Park Drive, NW11(014581984).

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