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WORKING WOMEN'S
ORGANIZATION of PAKISTAN

The Working Women Organization of Pakistan seeks the support of trade unions, workers and human rights organizations around the world to condemn the Pakistani Government’s anti-worker practices.
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SHORTER
WORK WEEK
NETWORK


PO Box 291 Belmore
NSW 2192, AUSTRALIA

E-mail

Telephone: (02) 9758 4497
Statement of Aims
WE advocate a world-wide
campaign for shorter working
hours.
WE support this campaign by
creating and supporting
Shorter Work Week Action
Committees.
WE publicise struggles over
working hours and the structure
of work, life and time.
FULL STATEMENT
IN THE NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2005 NEWSLETTER:

* Howard IR laws to put workers under the thumb!
* The Taft-Hartley Act as a model for strangling unions
* How casual, hourly-rate jobs work for the boss
* Overtime shows in waistline
* The tyranny of efficiency
* UK: fatigue at sea risks safety
* Greece: 24-hour general strike against longer-hour laws
* Who are Howard’s IR backers and how do we stop them?
* Young workers need unions, shorter work week
* Lawyers lose to long hours work culture
* UK: TUC confronts employers’ myths about long hours



OUR NEXT MEETINGS:
Supporters of the Shorter Work Week Network meet to discuss current
work-time-life issues at the
Town Hall Square,
Sydney CBD, cafeteria area (glassed-over
area, west side of the square),

Next meetings: to be announced.


SWWN © 2002