Gender Issues
Trade unions need women members to make unions stronger, and, likewise, women need unions to get their demands met and, ultimately, live better.
The ICEM sectors are still largely male dominated, even though women are, as a result of globalisation, working more and more in the industries organised by the ICEM. Many of these industries increasingly require white-collar workers, not only in offices, but also in research and technology-driven jobs. These jobs are more attractive to women workers.
All ICEM's work has a gender perspective (Contract and agency labour, HIV/AIDS, global agreements, collective bargaining, trade union organising, privatisation, restructuring, work-life balance, etc.). All of these work-related topics affect men and women differently, which is why the ICEM covers them all with a gender perspective.
The ICEM publishes an occasional e-mail bulletin on gender issues that you can subscribe, or contribute to, by sending an e-mail to press@icem.org. You can also find current and previous versions of this bulletin by scrolling down this page.
 UAW Pickets US Hyundai Dealers over Sexual Harassment in Korea |
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19 December 2011 South Korea United States ICEM InBrief  |
The US-based United Autoworkers’ Union (UAW) exhibited exemplary trade union solidarity with the Korean Metal Workers’ Union (KMWU) recently when American autoworkers turned out to picket and handbill Hyundai auto dealerships in the US.
Customers at some 75 Hyundai dealerships on 30 November learned of the injustice afforded a contract worker at a Hyundai Motor Group factory in South... Read the article |
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| CEP Holds 9th Women’s Conference in Ottawa, Canada |
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19 December 2011 Canada ICEM InBrief  |
Like past years, the Communications, Energy, Paperworkers (CEP) Union of Canada held its bi-annual Women’s Conference in the days around National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada on 6 December, the fateful date in 1989 when 14 young women were massacred at École Polytechnique in Montreal in an anti-feminist rage.
Some 350 women attended the CEP’s...Read the article |
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| ICEM Congress Focuses on Halt to Violence Against Women |
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25 November 2011 Argentina Global ICEM InBrief Alert  |
The ICEM opened day two of its 5th Statutory Congress in Buenos Aires with moving observance today, 25 November, of International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. ICEM Executive Committee Member Tony Maher, the General President of the Mining & Energy Division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining & Energy Union (CFMEU) of Australia, opened the session by proclaiming ICEM...Read the article |
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| ICEM WOMEN’S BULLETIN | ||
16 November 2011 |
Global |
ICEM Women's bulletin |
| ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin - No. 73, October 2011 | ||
13 October 2011 |
Global |
ICEM HIV/AIDS Bulletin |
| CEPPWAWU’s Petrol Strike Ends; Chemical Sectors Close, Kimberly Clark Recalcitrant | ||
1 August 2011 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| ILO Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers | ||
20 June 2011 |
Global |
ICEM InBrief |
| Gender and CAL: ITUC’s Women in Precarious Work Report | ||
19 June 2011 |
Global |
ICEM Background Document |
| ICEM Women’s Bulletin: Will and Conquests | ||
10 June 2011 |
Global |
ICEM Women's bulletin |
| Swiss Women Set 14 June as ‘Equality Now’ Day | ||
6 June 2011 |
Switzerland |
ICEM InBrief |
| Interview: New South Wales Energy District Secretary Lorraine Usher, CFMEU | ||
1 June 2011 |
Australia |
ICEM Background Document |
| ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin - No. 68, May 2011 | ||
11 May 2011 |
Global |
ICEM HIV/AIDS Bulletin |
| ICEM Mourns Death of Presidium Member Liv Undheim | ||
11 April 2011 |
Norway |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Mourns Death of Presidium Member Liv Undheim | ||
6 April 2011 |
Norway |
ICEM InBrief Alert |
| Largest Number Ever Attend ICEM Women’s Conference in Spain | ||
28 March 2011 |
Global |
ICEM InBrief |
| 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day! | ||
7 March 2011 |
Spain Thailand United States ... |
ICEM InBrief Alert |
| UN Commission on Status of Women Underway in New York City | ||
28 February 2011 |
Global |
ICEM InBrief |
| Take Up Protest for Woman Trade Unionist Jailed in Indonesia | ||
17 January 2011 |
Indonesia |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin - No. 64, January 2011 | ||
11 January 2011 |
Bulgaria Canada Ethiopia ... |
ICEM HIV/AIDS Bulletin |
| ICEM Women’s Bulletin / Boletín de noticias de la mujer de la ICEM | ||
23 December 2010 |
Global |
ICEM Women's bulletin |
ICEM Protests Northern Cyprus Strike Ban in Energy Sector
Proud Indonesian Miners End Strike with Freeport-McMoRan
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