Today in Labor History May 10, 1980: 50,000 marched for passage of Equal Rights Amendment.
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Three men (Luxon, Peters, Seymour) aren't willing for men's pay to be hobbled to pay for their landlord tax cuts & wider useless tax cuts - but it's ok apparently for the lowest paid women in the country to be burdened with their wrongful largesse.
This is deep inequity and institutionalised misogyny. It's rolling back all the progress made on equal pay, consigning women to indentured second classism.
Women and allies must literally make this government pay at election 2026. #NZpol #equalpay
"Equal pay for women."
I can't believe our little country has regressed this far under the Luxon coalition. To some extent you expect ACT's racism, NZF's anti-science backwards thinking, even National's plundering of public services with a 'Reverse Robin Hood' approach to wealth redistribution.
But denying pay equity to women? That's a new low.
Equal Pay Day highlights stalled pay gap progress: 'Women are never, ever going to catch up,' researcher says
CNBC · Equal Pay Day highlights stalled pay gap progress: 'Women are never, ever going to catch up,' researcher says
Today in Labor History March 22, 1972: U.S. Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification. It failed. And to this day, women earn 84% of what men do. One of the exceptions is public education, where teachers’ unions have fought and won the right to collectively bargain salaries based on years of experience, not gender. The first ERA was introduced to Congress in 1923. The 1972 had wide bipartisan support, including by presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, and seemed destined to pass. However, Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservative women against the amendment, arguing that it would disadvantage housewives, make them eligible for the draft and cause divorcees to lose custody of their children. This killed the ERA in the 1970s. From 2017-2020, several states have ratified the ERA. However, it is uncertain whether these ratifications are legal, since they occurred after the deadlines. Schlafly went on to become a major player in the anti-abortion and anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ rights movements.
#BBCNews - BBC presenters settle sex and age discrimination dispute
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80y1j4r8yeo
#EqualPay
www.bbc.comBBC: Martine Croxall, Annita McVeigh, Karin Giannone and Kasia Madera settle sex and age discrimination disputeThe quartet claimed they lost their roles on the BBC News Channel following a "rigged" recruitment.
Today in Labor History March 13, 1979: The Marxist New Jewel movement, led by Maurice Bishop, overthrew the prime minister of Grenada. Bishop led the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown and executed in a coup supported by the U.S. Bishop supported anti-racist struggles around the world and the fight to end Apartheid. Under his leadership, Granada gave women equal pay to men and provided paid maternity leave. They also banned sexual discrimination and introduced free public health and literacy programs that brought the national illiteracy rate from 35% down to 5%. In 1983, the U.S. invaded Granada. 19 U.S. soldiers and 45 Grenadian soldiers died in the fighting that ensued. The invasion effectively ended the so-called “Vietnam Syndrome,” where U.S. leaders feared that overt regime change, with U.S. boots on the ground, would spark large antiwar protests, like those that rocked the nation in the 1960s and early 70s. The Grenada invasion paved the way for much more aggressive interventions like Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria.
Today in Labor History March 8, 1911: The first modern International Women’s Day was celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and the U.S. IWD has its roots in the suffrage movement of New Zealand, and leftist labor organizing in the U.S. and Europe. The earliest Women’s Days were organized by the Socialist Party of America, in New York, in 1909, and by German socialists in 1910. They chose the date of March 8 in honor of the garment workers strikes in New York that occurred on March 8, in 1857 and 1908. However, the first IWD celebrated on March 8, the current date, was in 1911. The holiday was associated primarily with far-left movements until the feminist movement adopted it in the 1960s, when it became a more mainstream celebration.
![German poster for International Women's Day, March 8, 1914.[a] This poster was banned in the German Empire. It depicts a woman waving a long banner. By Karl Maria Stadler (1888 – nach 1943) - Scan from an old book, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6372383](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/127/784/950/726/856/original/2522b6448fc0bd43.jpg "German poster for International Women's Day, March 8, 1914.[a] This poster was banned in the German Empire. It depicts a woman waving a long banner. By Karl Maria Stadler (1888 – nach 1943) - Scan from an old book, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6372383")
Today in Labor History March 8, 1908: Thousands of workers in the New York needle trades (mostly women) launched a strike for higher wages, shorter hours and an end to child labor. They chose this date in commemoration of the 1857 strike. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike and the one in 1857.
Today in Labor History March 8, 1857: Women garment workers picketed in New York City, demanding a 10-hour workday, better working conditions, and equal rights for women. In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed to the Second International, that March 8 be celebrated as International Women’s Day to commemorate this strike.
#BBCNews - Fury as women hit by pension age rise denied payouts
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr36842nd6o
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www.bbc.comWaspi: Fury as women hit by state pension age rise are denied payoutsCampaigners say they were not properly informed of a pension age rise to bring them in line with men.
Today in Labor History December 16, 1977: Eight women in Willmar, Minnesota, launched the first bank workers strike in U.S. history. They were protesting sexual discrimination like unequal pay and treatment. They picketed outside the bank when the wind chill was -70 F (-57 C)
Verdienen Frauen nur Mittelmaß – statt #gleicheBezahlung? Im Oktober gab das LAG Stuttgart unserer #EqualPay-Klage gegen #Daimler teilweise statt – doch das Urteil fiel weit hinter bisherige Equal-Pay-Standards zurück. Heute haben wir die Revision am Bundesarbeitsgericht eingereicht. Unsere Klägerin arbeitet seit 30 Jahren bei #Daimler. Doch die Abteilungsleiterin wird deutlich schlechter bezahlt als Männer auf gleicher Ebene. 90 Prozent der #Frauen im Daimler-Konzern geht es genauso.
Four prominent #BBCnews presenters—Martine Croxall, Kasia Madera, Annita McVeigh, and Karin Giannone—have filed an appeal with the Employment Appeal Tribunal taking forward their long-running battle over alleged pay inequality at the BBC
https://www.thompsonstradeunion.law/news/news-releases/four-female-bbc-journalists-appeal-equal-pay-ruling
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Thompsons SolicitorsFour Female BBC Journalists Appeal Equal Pay rulingExplore the ongoing equal pay dispute between BBC journalists and the corporation, highlighting claims of pay discrimination, settlement agreements, and the legal battle over Employment Tribunal rulings.
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Today, October 3, is Latina Equal Pay Day.
"Equal Pay Days raise awareness about the ongoing gender pay gap and how the pay gap varies significantly among different communities, particularly for women of color."
https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/equal-pay-day-calendar/
AAUW : Empowering Women Since 1881Equal Pay Day CalendarThere is more than one equal pay day to mark how the gender pay gap is wider for many women of color.
Das Landesarbeitsgericht Stuttgart hat heute unsere Klage auf #GleicheBezahlung gegen den Daimler Konzern teilweise stattgegeben. Trotzdem fällt es weit hinter bisherige #EqualPay-Standards zurück. Ein Thread. https://freiheitsrechte.org/ueber-die-gff/presse/pressemitteilungen-der-gesellschaft-fur-freiheitsrechte/pm-lag-urteil-daimler
'We did it!' #Next shop workers win #equal #pay claim
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0817jd9dqo
After a gruelling six yr legal battle at last #EqualPay 
BBC NewsNext shop workers win equal pay claimIn-store staff, who are mostly women, should be paid the same as warehouse workers, a tribunal rules.
On this day, August 26th, 1970, American women took to the streets for the Women’s Strike for Equality. (It was also the 19th amendment’s 50th anniversary, guaranteeing voting rights for women.) An estimated 50k people participated.
At the time, women were earning $0.59 for every dollar a man earned. 54 years later they only earn $0.84 for every man’s dollar, according to AAUW.
Pay gap source:
https://www.aauw.org/resources/research/simple-truth/
