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The 8th of March is an important date for the women in the world. It reminds us of the fights we had to achieve a bigger piece of the cake, to get closer to equality, to have the right to work, to vote and to decide by ourselves about our issues.
The 8th of March 2011 will be dedicated by the UNI Europa women's committee to postal women. The European Parliament will have its plenary session on the 8th till the 10th March 2011 in Strasbourg and we will show to the MEPs that the consequences of liberalisation affects to a great extent women.
52% of the postal workers in Europe are female. Post women still earn - like in all other sectors - up to 30% less than their male colleagues. The change of employment in the postal sector towards part-time or marginal work is often used by women to achieve a work-life balance. As women are often employed on a part-time basis, they are excluded from career perspectives or further training in the company and therefore they are the first who get fired in case of restructuring.
UNI Europa Post&Logistics and UNI Europa Equal Opportunities organise together with some MEPs in the European Parliament in Strasbourg an action around the international women's day.
The 8th of March from 10:00 till 17:00 o’clock, we will distribute leaflets and flowers to the MEPs and try to discuss with them the female aspects of postal liberalisation. We would like to invite as many women as possible to join us and help us to get the message through that this postal liberalisation is not acceptable not for women or for men. We've also prepared some posters and flyers that you can use to spread the message. Please find them attached.
To ensure you remain totally up to date with the campaign you can follow all the activities on the UNI Post&Logistics campaign blog (Protect Our Post) at: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/Blogs/ProtectOurPost.nsf/
Let’s save postal services in Europe and guarantee good jobs and social security in the sector! You can be an important part of the success!!!
We are looking forward seeing you in Strasbourg on the 8th of March!
Save Europe's postal services!