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Implementation
Implementation
Resolution 23 (continued)
(4) Conference supports initiatives such as those to get more young women to
consider a career in engineering and the science sectors.
(5) There is a lack of information on issues facing women in manufacturing,
including working patterns and health concerns as recent research has
warned and PPE is often inappropriate and inadequate for women working in
manufacturing.
(6) Conference therefore calls on the GFTU Executive and Affiliates to:
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share best practice between unions and support shop stewards and
union reps in tackling women’s under-representation and ending job
segregation within manufacturing;
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support initiatives to get more women into engineering and science
apprenticeships;
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urge the government to fund decent and well paid apprenticeships
leading to permanent employment, including positive action for young
women;
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work with unions to identify issues that concern women in
manufacturing;
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support affiliates in urging their governments for real investment in this
industry, to promote manufacturing apprenticeships among women and
lift barriers facing women;
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insist that manufacturing companies ensure that procured components
are not produced in sweatshop conditions or where there is abuse of
migrant women or men workers.
Resolution 24
Youth Service
(1) This Conference continues to be opposed to the unfair and unnecessary
attacks on The GS wrote letters to every MP and member of the House of
Lords on behalf of the campaign and drafted the Young People and Youth
Work Bill with Unite member Andy Driver and former director of the National
Youth Agency TomWylie.A special meeting of Chooseyouth was held on
June 4th and a renewed episode of concerted campaigning ensued. our
public services. It notes with utter dismay the consequence of this in the near
ruin of the Youth Service in Britain.
(2) The historic role of youth work as an educational service offering personal
and social development to young people outside school and work and
offering an entirely unique space for young people to grow and develop, as
well as for preventative work to be undertaken is under serious threat. The
service has experienced an ideologically driven break up of youth work and
the youth services. It is undisputed that the Youth Service in England is the
first public service to actually disappear as a consequence of the austerity
funding cuts to local authorities by the current Tory Government.
(3) Fantastic youth work now only exists in isolated fragments. The architecture
of the post war settlement of local authorities working in partnership
with the voluntary sector to provide professionally qualified workers and
supported volunteers to work with and for young people to expand their
horizons and develop citizenship and collective responsibility has gone.
No local authority in England has a Youth Service left. Thousands of youth
centres have closed.
(4) This conference calls upon the GFTU and affiliate organisations to:
1.
Continue to actively support the Choose Youth Campaign, the
unprecedented alliance of youth organisations and Trade unions to
defend youth services and Youth workers jobs underpinned