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This is a toolkit for trade unions, voluntary organisations, community groups and others who want to assess the human rights and equality impact of the spending cuts on women in their communities. Although the toolkit focuses on women and the cuts, much of the information it contains can be used to look at the impact of the cuts on other groups.
Some of the issues covered in this toolkit have been devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Much of this toolkit will nonetheless be useful to the TUC’s sister organisations, the STUC, Wales TUC Cymru and ICTU.
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Acknowledgement
This publication has been written by Mary-Ann Stephenson, Chair of Coventry Women’s Voices, an independent body that brings together women’s organisations, organisations working with and for women, and individual women themselves to make sure that their voices are heard in Coventry when policy is made. You can find out more at: http://coventrywomensvoices.wordpress.com/
Mary works as a consultant specialising in women’s equality and human rights. www.maryannstephenson.co.uk
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PK w}?9G@ @ OEBPS/Flow_2.htmlForeword: The TUC and the cuts
The TUC is the voice of Britain at work. We represent 55 affiliated unions with more than six million members. The TUC campaigns for a fair deal at work and for social justice at home and abroad. Fifty-one per cent of trade union members are women.
The TUC campaigns on a wide range of issues affecting women at work, at home and in the wider community. Through its research and campaign work the TUC has played a key role in the campaigns to fight for equal pay, end violence against women and defend abortion rights.
The Women’s Committee promotes the voice of women trade unionists throughout the work of the TUC and the wider labour movement. The Women’s Committee has ensured a focus is maintained on the disproportionate impact on women of the government’s programme of spending cuts and welfare reform.
The TUC has been at the forefront of the anti-cuts campaign and has consistently highlighted the unequal and unfair impact of the cuts on different communities. Through online activism, political lobbying, organising national campaign events, like the March for the Alternative and supporting local community campaigns, the TUC and affiliated unions have been leading the opposition to the government’s spending cuts, changes to the benefits system and the outsourcing and privatisation of our public services.
The TUC has worked with the campaigning website False Economy to map cuts, gather information through crowd-sourcing and freedom of information requests and to mobilise for regional and national campaigns and events.
The trade union movement has been working closely with voluntary sector organisations and community organisers across the UK to fight local authority cuts and to defend jobs and services.
The TUC and affiliated trade unions have produced a wide range of campaign resources, from briefings to toolkits and posters on the gender impact of the cuts. Some of these resources are listed in this toolkit and many more can be found on individual trade union websites.
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