Trade union class for women at
Chennai.
A special trade union class was
held on 22.8.2015 on behalf of LIC Working Women’s committee of ICEU, of
Chennai Division-1. Due to the tremendous enthusiasm created by the event, more
than 75 women comrades from both the City of Chennai and also rural areas were
present on the occasion, all of them or either office bearers or women
sub-committee members. Even though it is working women convention true to the
tradition of AIIEA, a lot of male employees participated. Divisional Women’s Sub-Committee convenor
Comrade S.Manjula, presided the class.
Com.S.Nirmala Rani, a popular Advocate
and who fought many legal battles such as Uthapuram untouchability wall case
and other cases, to uphold social justice was the resource person, who handled
the class in a deft way. The topic of the class was “Women, home, office,
society-protection and Laws”. She
explained about the laws enacted to protect women. The various laws such as
Prevention of sexual harassment of women at work place act of 2013, Domestic Violence
act. Many rights were won only after hard fought struggles. The Government of India was trying to dilute
some laws such as 498 A of Indian penal code. He applauded the role of trade
unions especially AIIEA in organizing women, whose rights were under attack and
who were treated as second class citizens. The unanimous demand for provision
of 33% reservation for women in legislative bodies is still hanging fire. The
need to promulgate a law for stopping honour killing is the necessity today.
But the central and state governments are not willing to enact such legislation.
After her speech a question answer session was held, many
women comrades who attended the class raised many question regarding various
legal provisions of the acts to protect women, which were answered with much
more clarity. The time took to complete the class was more than two hours. The
women comrades who participated in the class were very much appreciative of the
initiative. Com.G.Srividya, Asst.Treasurer, ICEU, presented a shawl to the
resource person.
Earlier Com.S.Manjula Welcomed gathering. The speaker Com.U.Nirmalrani was introduced
to the women comrades by Com.S.Rameshkumar, General Secretary, ICEU, and
Chennai Division-1. Com.K.Swaminathan General Secretary, SZIEF was present
throughout the session. He was very much appreciative of the divisional union
for the initiative and the women comrades for attending the class with rapt
attention.
The class
came to a close after Com.K.Vijayalakshmi, Editorial board member Udayam Journal,
proposed a vote of thanks.
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