WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #344 - Unionism, Feminist unionism, where are we? (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 After a year of intense union mobilizations, what can we say about the

place of women in workers' organizations? Progress point for a strategy
of feminist libertarian unionism. ---- At the end of the 19th century,
Louise Michel kept a history of "women's strikes and women's work" with
the action magazine L'Internationale des femmes. The activist worked to
support women's unions and raised funds for them. Along with many
libertarian women, they defended the principle of workers' organizations
and the need for action in the workplace.
If the fight against pension reform is lost for the moment, a lesson
from the mobilization is the windows that are opening for feminist
unionism. Highlighting workers and their demands, highlighting their
issues, identifying their specificities, broadening the axis of the
feminist strike, increasing the number of union members: part of the
battle of ideas on the analysis of the female proletariat is won.

Where do women struggle the most?
A majority of women spend most of their waking lives at work, so it is
an essential place to take action. Nearly 50% of them are concentrated
in ten professions united by low wages, precariousness and employer
brutality (nurses, home help, salespeople, nurses, cleaning agents, etc.).

In many feminized professions, the salary is still a handout. The
500,000 home helpers receive 900 euros on average and 132,000 AESH
receive on average 860 euros. In feminist news, the most stubborn
women's struggles are found in their workplace. This combativeness is
what we observe in the mobilizations of nurses, home helpers, midwives,
cleaning workers, workers in certain companies (Vertbaudet workers,
etc.), education workers (AESH), etc. "No one is saved except by
himself; our place (as a woman) in humanity must not be begged, it must
be taken.» (Louise Michel)

Unity is strength, our organization multiplies it
The action of women in the struggle unions is as little known as their
struggles. However, trade union organizations are the first class and
mass organizations of women. To date, the CGT brings together more than
200,000 activists, Solidaires 40,000 workers and the FSU has more than
100,000 members.

Initially, the revolutionary organizations built their priority on
masculine criteria, putting in the background the specific problems of
women workers or even worse considering them as anomalies in the union
repertoire and ignoring the extent of patriarchal domination,
particularly in the workplace. of work. What follows is a minoritization
of the women's liberation movement in the main revolutionary movements
of the world.

Libertarian feminist activists have been the most aware of the
importance of labor struggles for women. Workers' self-organization is
one of the two origins of the libertarian feminism movement. It is today
an essential orientation.

Louise (UCL Saint-Denis)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Syndicalisme-feministe-ou-en-est-on
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