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workers have the leined strike. bon 26 miners strike. On April, broadcasting union members from the NUJ, ACIT and Abo mel West London with representatives of NUM to discuss bias in the Campaign Press and Freedom redress distortion.
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get represented on your solidarity don't have the unions (see below). • When media bias happens don't just sit there bemoaning the capitalist media something and do it quickly. Lodge an official complaint with the radio/TV station/ paper about the particular item. Don't be put off, try and get the local radio station to interview someone from the committee about station or paper. Or write a letter to the paper about it.
Contact the media union chapel/branch ofyour complaint. Ask them if they will also complain to the editor/programme producer.
Useful phone numbers ACTT (film technicians) 01-437 8506 ABS (Broadcasting staff) 01-262 0162 NUJ (journalists union) 01-278 7916 NGA (printworkers) 0234-51521 SOGAT (print/clerical) 0702-553131 Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom 01-437 2795 Miners Campaign Video Project 01-278 8394
AS FOR THE last tew years, women's conference will be dominated by the demands for constitutional reform to give women more power in the Labour Party. This year the Women's Committee of the party is recommending the resolutions are accepted.
It is becoming increasingly hard for the Labour leadership to resist the growing pressure from organised women in the labour movement for a greater voice in party policy and affairs.
On these pages Woodward ANN PETTIFOR, secretary of WAC, about the prospects for the campaign JANET MAGUIRE looks at some of the Labour Party's past record on women.
Some women have argued that WAC's - demands are a diversion from the reai policy questions confronting women.
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Ann Pettifor within when I was at home with two children and no income, helpless and dependent, Dennis neary and a numoci of leading trade union men decided to ditch Labour's commitment to child This commitment Party in the have failure which mobilised in me, and other women, the determination to organise politically. Because we saw leading men within the behalf of women without having to refer to those terests.
Because there was no forum to refer to, no power base, no organisational that like the miners' union.
So in order for women to get the policy changes they want it is necessary for them to organise politically. What WAC is trying to do is to create the forums within which women can formulate their demands, formulate their and then advance those interests. wal aocsit presume lo nave the answers, to know what it is that women want. We simply want to create structure within which women can advance those policy So what are the next steps in trying to win WAC's demands?
I think the very next step is to build a organisation for women the that established and recognised by the party as part of its formal constitution. That is recognised by the annual conference and acknowledged by the trade unions who at conference are the dominant ponucal torce For that we have to have a rules and for that we have to women the affiliated organisations, in other words the trade unions, represented as well as women from the constituencies. These women have to get together to hammer out a COTSLLULOU organisation which suits and fits their needs and their inThat is the first step and I think that organisation is a shambles, particularly compared to their own ferences Monale s. and in terms of standing orders.
I think trade union women want to union con— a snambies in organisa in constitutional terms ALON ON