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India: IDWN-IUF held its First-ever National Meeting of Domestic Workers

India: IDWN-IUF held its First-ever National Meeting of Domestic Workers

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by IDWFED published Mar 18, 2012 12:00 AM
Over 35 domestic workers leaders and organizers participated at the first-ever IDWN and IUF national meeting of domestic workers in India in March this year.
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Mar 17, 2012 to Mar 18, 2012 (Universal / UTC0)
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India
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Over 35 domestic workers leaders and organizers participated at the first-ever IDWN and IUF national meeting of domestic workers in India in March this year.

At the conclusion, among other things, developing a domestic workers model contract has been cited as a concrete step to raise awareness of labour rights and organizing of domestic workers.

Participants: 35 from 13 domestic workers trade unions and other organizations:

1. Self Employed Women Association
2. National Domestic Workers Movement
3. Sarv Shramik Sangh-Mumbai
4. Sarv Shramil Sangh-Pune
5. Manuel Workers Union
6. Nlrmala Nlketan ( DWs coop)
7. Tamil Nadu Domestic Workers Union
8. Karnataka Domestic Workers Union
9. Karnataka Domestic Workers Rights Union
10. Annai Illam (migrant workers centre)
11. Unorganized Workers Federation
12. Centre for Women and Development
13. Manushi Trade Union for Domestic Workers

The meeting was opened with songs and slogans by domestic workers. Hidayat Greenfield, Assistant Regional Secretary of the IUF AP and Ip Pui Yu (or Fish), Regional Coordinator of the IDWN, both welcomed the participants.

Greenfield said that the IUF considered the victory of domestic workers in winning the C189 the most important one since workers achieved the right to organize. Now that domestic workers have gained an important tool, it was important to plan how to use it in order to achieve work with dignity.

Fish Ip explained that the objectives of the meeting were: first, to plan for ratification of C189 with domestic workers playing a central role and secondly, to ensure that domestic workers be organized.

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