Last week marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and trade unions around the world demanded that governments ratify and implement International Labor Organization Convention 190, on ending violence and harassment in the world of work.
Gender-based violence and harassment is a particular threat to women, LGBTQ workers and other marginalized groups. Homicide is one of the leading causes of death on the job among women in the United States, accounting for almost a quarter of workplace deaths among women. It is also a particular threat to workers in low-wage, precarious working arrangements, as poverty and marginalization can prevent workers from escaping or challenging dangerous conditions. The C190 framework emphasizes that everyone has the fundamental right to be free from violence and harassment at work, and requires governments adopt an inclusive, integrated and gender-responsive approach to end it. Violence is a tool that both reflects and reinforces a gendered power hierarchy at work and in society, and ending violence requires allowing women workers to take collective action to confront this hierarchy directly. In today’s labor history, on this date in 1943, President Roosevelt announced the end of the Works Progress Administration, concluding the four-year run of one of the American government's most ambitious public works programs. It helped create jobs for roughly 8.5 million people during the Great Depression and left a legacy of highways and public buildings. Today’s labor quote is by United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther elected president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations on this date in 1951. Walter Reuther, who said: “Where you find a weak trade union official who has been corrupted, you will also find an employer who has been a party to corrupting him; and if you are going to send a weak trade union leader to prison for malpractices, then reserve the adjacent cells for the insurance agent and the personnel director.” Union City Radio is supported by our friends at Union Plus. The best gifts are union-made, so check out the Union Plus Online Store and get 20% off union-made apparel and gear for a limited time. Visit shopunionplus.org and use code 2019COM at checkout.
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