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International Working Women’s Day – March 8
The media is invited to the following union events marking International Working Women’s Day, focussed on low paid women workers and working women’s lives.
Wellington - Get a Life!
7pm - 9.30pm at Loaves and Fishes
(next to Anglican Cathedral, cnr Hill and Molesworth Sts.)
- Panel of speakers from political parties and the Council of Trade Unions, led by Minister of Women’s Affairs, Laila Harre.
- Women’s choirs, Choir, Choir, Pants on Fire and Brazen Hussies.
Women workers talking about their lives.
Auckland - Women and men rally to end inequality
6pm, Freyberg Square, near High Street, Auckland City
- Speakers: Darien Fenton, vice president of the Council of Trade Unions and Sandra Coney, women’s health activist.
- Union Made Choir and open mike.
International Working Women’s Day
On 8 March 1857, in one of the first organised actions by working women anywhere in the world, hundreds of women workers in garment and textile factories in New York City staged a strike against low wages, long working hours and inhumane working conditions.
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New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
Te Kauae Kaimahi
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi brings together over 350,000 New Zealand union members in 40 affiliated unions. We are the united voice for working people and their families in New Zealand.
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