ASTMS, about organi sing women
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in the unions IN our union, the Women's tee (NAC) is certainly more radical than the NEC. The NAC supported the Greenham Common women when they were arrested and demanded their immediate release. It has also been active on women righten ustin. o ASTMS organises the whole of Ireland. The NAC has been fighting attempts to make contraception illegal in the South, and has taken up the question of abortion rights in the North and the • The NAC is made up of activists. All the women on it are active on the divisions. At the same time the NAC meetings are far more constructive and supportive than most ASTMS meetings. Women listen to each other and don't keep interrupting or trying to dominate the discussion in the way men do.
It was set up in 1975 to advise the NEC on issues relating to women. Some women were opposed to a Women's National Advisory Committee on the grounds that i would enable the NEC to shelve women's Ger IN the face of a concerted attempt by government, employers and the media to force us out of the workplace and back into our "natural' place in the home, women have to respond "Women have a right work, ton"
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