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The 'gentle invaders' : Comments
By Angela Barns and Alison Preston, published 22/10/2008‘Gentle invaders’ revisited: women and the Australian union movement, past and present.
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I would like to have seen some figures included on the state of female union membership in Australia relative to union membership in general - is it going up or down? What have surveys revealed about women's attitudes to unionism (if any such surveys exist)?
Also, the essay only briefly touched on the 'poor' industrial relations of part-time and casual (PTC) employment - very much a female issue. I doubt if much progress will ever be made without a proactive collaboration between the unions and women's organisations to achieve some positive outcomes on this.
If the unions are serious about reversing their declining numbers, winning over the vast (and, with the current economic situation, soon to be increasing) army of female PTCs is a very good place to start.