DECENT WORK FOR ALL focus on women

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DECENT WORK FOR ALL focus on women

• UNI-APRO
• WOMENS COMMITTEESusie Tung, CPWU,Taiwan

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What is happening nowwith Decent Work?
Decent Work
invisible workers
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3 General Steps in Social Organization

• 1.The world of the Hunting family Hunter Adam
  works outside of the cave Eve works inside the
  cave raises children
• 2.The world of the Farming family Farmer Adam
  works in the field Eve works in the house
  raises childrenThey agreed to this tradition
  relationship

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• 3.The world of the industrial family
• Employee Adam goes to work in a factoryEve too
  works in the factory sends the
• children to the kindergartenWhen they
  return to their apartment from the factory, there
  is conflict and they fight.

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Dancing to out-of-date music

• It would seem strange to see - Farmer Adam and
  his buffalo taking the subway to the rice fields
  in the morning,with Eve wearing great
  grandmother scloths waving good-bye at the
  station.Although we live in a modern world ,in
  some ways we still act and think like we are in
  the old world.

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What is Our Social thinking?
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Dancing in harmony with the music, Dancing
with the reality of today
We need to realize how much our world has changed
and how much our social thinking must also
change only with this realization, we can
change how we treat each other
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What we have done in CPWU, Taiwan

• We sponsored a
• UNI Apro Women Workshop in Mandarin in
  collaboration withCPWU UNI Apro in Taipei
  Taiwan on 27-30 April 2004

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First UNI Apro Women Workshop in Mandarin

• - 35 women activists from the
• CPWU
• - 3 women activists from the
• Federation of Bank Employees
• - 1 women leader from
• Malaysia, Singapore,Hong Kong
• - Participated by Yoko Ogawa
• Alice Chang of UNI Apro

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Open space discussion
The theme Decent Work -challenges
andopportunities forwomen.
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ACTION PLAN

• 1.Promoting activities related to understanding
  gender equality at home, society and work
• 2.Ongoing employment education and training for
  improving employees work performance and
  satisfaction.

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ACTION PLAN

• 3.Advocate management make additional investments
  which would also create job opportunities for
  postal workers.
• 4.Promote a family center value system within our
  social educational and government institutions.

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Action Performance Review

• Sponsored a meeting for union members and postal
  managers titled How to balance your career and
  family life

• The CPWU passed a formal request to the postal
  management,recommending that they offer new
  postal service technology training courses

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Action Performance Review

• The postal system has decided to build the 1st
  retirement center in Taipei.
• Postal workers will be given prefer employment
  opportunities.

• Discussion held on with branch unions on the
  issue of the balance for family life, career and
  better industrial relationship with the employer
  so that these three elements are in harmony.

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KEY POINTS

• Agreed to
• Promote a family center value system within our
  social, educational and government institutions
  in cooperation with the trade unions.

• Highlighted the need to provide training,
  educational and promote awareness regarding
  gender equality at all levels of society.

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KEY POINTS

• Continue co-operation within UNI Apro trade union
  activities to promote better working conditions.
• End to gender discrimination.
• Continue promoting Decent Work issues to ensure a
  quality life for workers and their families.
• Play an active role in the trade union to promote
  Decent Work issues.

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UNI Apros Global Equality Project

• UNI Apros Global Equality Projects aims to
  build a network of women activists to promote
  Decent Work has received encouraging results.

• National Women committees established to organise
  more workers into the trade union
• Use collective bargaining as a tool in ensuring
  decent working terms benefits for all workers.

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UNI Apros Global Equality Project

• Networking amongst women members of the trade
  union and society.
• Provide training in knowledge, awareness raising
  and up grading of skills to ensure employability.
• Balance of family responsibilities, working life
  and family life.
• More proportionate representation at all levels.
  
• Women in leadership levels.

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UNI Apros Women Committee

• End to discrimination, violence and harassment of
  any kind.
• Promote worker friendly changes in the law.
• Training and retraining in the globalized world.
• Ensuring that Union members, both men and women
  are Global Players.
• Establish solidarity action in the Union.

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Four Strategic objectives for DECENT WORK

• Achieving fundamental principles and rights at
  work
• Promoting employment and income opportunities
• Extending Social Protection
• Promoting Social Dialogue

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Unions Bridging the Gap
Decent Work
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Things To Think AboutEqual vs. Fair
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Things To Think About

• Decent work vs. job security

Empire
Mutually Dependent