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Welcome
The Women in Trade Unions Network (WITUN) is an
organisation containing - within a flexible membership structure - a
variety of women from different unions and different areas of the
workforce. You don't have to be an official or a long-time union member to join. WITUN has an informal gathering approximately four times a year. Contact : SA Unions saunions@saunions.org.au for any information Events International Women's Day 2007 9 March : 7.30 am ASU Women's Breakfast, 5 Rundle Street, Kent Town : All women are welcome. This event is a great opportunity to catch up with union women. Gold coin donation.
10 March : IWD MARCH : 10.30 am Victoria Square marching through the city to Rymill Park.
Please come along, bring your friends and relations and banners and march to celebrate and defend our hard won rights!
History
The Network was formed in 1983 by a grup of women
involved with two South Australian Institutions - the Working
Women's Centre and the United Trades & Labor Council (SA Unions).
Some of the foundation members are Steph Key (now a Member of
Parliament), Carolyn Pickles (ex MLC). The strength of the union movement is based on its collective, democratic organisation and its unity of purpose. While women's share of union membership is rising, their participation in union affairs is lagging. This reflects women's major share of child rearing and domestic work and the lack of awareness in many unions of the problems facing women members and ways of involving women.
SA Unions Women's Standing Committee's role is to address these issues that women face in the workforce. Unions are committed through the Standing Committee in increasing women's involvement in the workforce. [read on]
Links Working Women's Centre - www.wwc.org.au Office for Women - www.officeforwomen.sa.gov.au Equal Opportunity Commission - www.eoc.sa.gov.au
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