Women
The CWU Women's Advisory Committee (WAC) was established to advise the NEC and the institutional committees on all matters relating to our women members.
The term of office for these positions is for a 2 year period commencing from 1st January 2012. The number of members to be elected is now 7 Postal constituency members and 6 TFS constituencfy members.
The Committee meets three times per year and discusses a wide range of issues. It sets it's priorities for the year and then splits into working parties in order to follow up these priorities.
The WAC has promoted special training for women within the Union and has been involved in the establishment of the Regional Women's Committees.
The WAC now has a direct link to all the Regional Women's Committees, which have been established and is seeking, through them, to increase the number of women active in the Union. The WAC is also responsible for progressing matters from the CWU Women's Conference and has campaigned on issues such as domestic violence, which the Committees see as an important issue for Trade Unions. The WAC links us with other women internationally through regular reports from the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and from our own International UNI.
The WAC aims to improve the amount and quality of women's participation in the CWU, to ensure that an agenda relevant to women is promoted in all National negotiations and to link up with other organisations working on behalf of women.
COMMITTEE
Lay Members:
Amanda Hill
Ann Nickolson
Helen Ogilvie
Jacinda Roberts
Jackie Gatward
Jean Sharrocks
Karen Bosson
Kate Hudson
Kathryn Kelly
Sylvia Beckett
Vera Kelsey
Vicki Turner
Vivien Holding
NEC Members:
Julia Upton
Katrina Quirke
CWU Women's conference
The CWU hold an annual Women's Conference, which is a motion-based. The main aims of the event are to bring women together, helping them to network and to also develop and agree union policy that directly affects women workers. Two motions from this Conference go forward to CWU Annual Conference, so that it can be highlighted and picked up on a national basis.
Conference 2011 took place on the 26th November 2011, read the report to find out more.
Newsletters
Minutes
2011
WAC minutes - 12th May 2011
WAC minutes - 13th January 2011
2010
WAC minutes - 6th October 2010
WAC minutes - 14th July 2010
A facebook group has been set up as an additional tool to allow women from all over the CWU to network with each other on any issues you want to discuss. You can join by clicking on the link below (note that you will need to log into your facebook account before submitting your request to join the group).
