Pedestal: A Women's Liberation Newspaper
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is part of: Pedestal
issued: 2016-11-10
issued: 1971-11
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extent: 16 pages
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note: ^ a women's Uberomon' newspaper 25* m? iN/ancouveR BC. ^* Vfckjmeit ^icr nov, 1971 T&r This issue is about, vV T* Quilts and Babies^ r '71—Pedestal—page ti mnmimnkny The strike at Sandringham Private Hospital is more than a typical union-management conflict. These women workers haveT.beefHin strike for more than a year. In spite of management's repeated refusals to negotiate, as they are legally bound to do, antfin spite of thc'indiffercnce shown by an unsympathetic Government, these women have remained firm in their resolve to gain job security and basic human rights. These women represent the plight of working women throughout the country who have long been' exploited in a male dominated economy. Women do not have equal opportunity in obtaining or in advancing in a job, they generally receive less pay, and find themselves channeled into dead-end "female" occupations providing a source of cheap labour, hi the past, women have been very undemanding and docile and have only recently attempted to improve their working conditions. These attempts have generally been met with little success in enlisting the enthusiasm and cooperation from the male overlords whose - interests arc better, served by a policy of economic apartheid. In the case of Sandringham, they have met with bitterness and hostility and the women have been slandered and insulted. Like the Suffragette Movement, which continued to seek political equality in spite of antagonism from supporters of the status quo, these initial attempts to gain economic equality arc important and the significance of Sandringham comes into focus: if the strikers succeed, the door will be ajar for others to . press their just demands; if they fail, "equal opportunity" will remain a pious platitude to be ignored. Because of the far ranging implications inherent in the Sandringham Strike, women's groups throughout B.C. should rise to urge the Government to take the The royal Com Women. i do, to insure women's rights, ion Report on…
note: Vol. 3, no. 10; November 1971
has type: Newspapers
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0340842
language: English
provider: Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver : Vancouver Women's Caucus
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source: Original Format: Simon Fraser University. Archives and Records Management
subject: Women's rights--Periodicals
subject: Feminism--Periodicals
type: Text