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Labour's women are getting organised
In Scotland and Britain women members are setting up meetings to look at recognition for care work, low pay for women, climate change and environmental justice, reports ANN HENDERSON
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WHEN Richard Leonard was elected leader of the Scottish Labour Party in November 2017, decisions were made swiftly to move ahead with the promises made on increasing women’s representation and to rebuild an effective Labour women’s organisation in Scotland.
Labour’s Scottish executive turned its attention to preparing the necessary rule changes for the Scottish Labour conference in March 2018, and by November 2018 a delegate-based, policy-making Labour women’s conference took place in Glenrothes.
Earlier that year, in February 2018, the Glasgow Women’s Library had provided a great venue for bringing Labour women together. From that event, which was addressed by Dawn Butler MP, shadow secretary of state for women and equalities, along with members of the Scottish Parliament, strong contacts between women in constituencies and in trade unions across Scotland were established.
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