Women only make up a small percentage of employees within the transport sector substantially as a result of the failure of employers within the industry to recruit and retain women workers. The RTBU Women's Campaign Committee will be working to ensure that women within transport are supported in voicing their concerns in relation to the big issues currently facing working families.
Today, working families are facing many challenges including the Howard Government's attacks on our pay, conditions and industrial rights at work. Working families face increased resistance from employers in providing family friendly conditions in the workplace and face growing difficulties in obtaining suitable child care especially where at least one person is employed in shift work.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
The Women's Campaign Committee is elected every two years and represents women from every section of the RTBU in the rail, bus and tram industries. Meetings are held at least twice a year with information and campaigning materials being distributed to participants between meetings.
It's easy to become part of the network simply download and completing the RTBU Women's Campaign Committee Contact Sheet and return it to Leanne Holmes either by email: leaverh@hotmail.com or by fax on (02) 9261 1342
Paid time is available to women who are elected to the Committee, however, all women are welcome to attend any of the meetings. Notices of future meetings are provided well in advance of each meeting to enable women who would like to attend to either swap shifts or to coordinate their rostered day off.
Feel free to download the RTBU Women's Campaign Committee Contact Sheet and ask women at your workplace to add their details and then return it so they can be put on the email list in order to receive notice of the meetings and events.
For more details on the Women's Campaign Committee, contact the RTBU Education and Training Officer, Maryanne Stuart at the Union Office on (02) 9264 2511.
Current campaigns include:
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the need for paid maternity leave for at least six months after the birth of a child, at our full remuneration for the previous year, and
- government action on high quality, affordable child care, accessible to parents who are shift workers.
