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International Women’s Day has a revolutionary history
Posted by John, March 7th, 2015 - under International Womens Day.
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In 1969 the Arbitration Commission refused to grant equal pay to women workers. Zelda D’Aprano chained herself to the doors of the Commission. Surely enough is enough. After 46 years women workers are no closer to equal pay for equal work. They are further away. What better way to reclaim International Women’s Day from the bosses than to strike for equal pay until it becomes a reality now, not in some never never far distant future? Women workers and women bosses have nothing in common. Fight the bosses, male and female, for equal pay now, for a proper maternity leave scheme that benefits working women the most, for equal pay, for abortion on demand, for free child care, for jobs for all.