Striking Women-Striking Out
Striking Women-Striking Out
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罢工女性-罢工
DOI：
10.1057/fr.2014.15
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发表时间：
2014
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影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Anitha S
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作者：
Anitha S
2006年9月17日，一群工会活动家、女权主义者和其他活动家聚集在伦敦基尔本的Tricycle剧院，庆祝一次著名罢工三十周年。大多数观众的年龄足以记住1976年至1978年在伦敦北部威尔斯登的格伦威克照片处理厂发生的事件;事实上，在场的许多人都参与了当时的历史事件。开幕式上的“星星”演讲者是领导罢工的标志性南亚女性贾亚本·德赛。Jack Dromey、亚瑟斯卡吉尔和德里克沃尔什都是白色男性工会会员，他们强调了不同工人之间团结的重要性，海陵Grunwick是有组织的劳工和工会运动的胜利，忽略了一个事实，即它最终以一群寻求工作中的认可和尊严的少数民族女工的失败而告终。在专门讨论移徙工人和工会主义的会议上，进一步强调了代表性和包容性问题。Dromey与南亚女权主义活动家Amrit Wilson和两名南亚妇女（SAW）及其子女一起参加了该平台，她们与前雇主Gate Gourmet发生了争执，Gate Gourmet是一家位于希思罗机场的航空食品准备公司。这些妇女认为，她们的斗争与英国前几代SAW的斗争有相似之处，尤其是因为工会运动抛弃了她们，而不是支持她们。时任运输和普通工人工会（TGWU）副秘书长兼工党财务主管的Dromey坚持认为，他和其他工会是英国移民工人的拥护者，并愤怒地拒绝了妇女的指控。就像在格伦威克案的争议中一样，关于谁的账户应该成为授权版本的争论也是尖锐的。
On 17 September 2006, a group of trade unionists, feminists and other activists assembled at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, London, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of a famous strike. Most of the audience were old enough to remember the events that took place between 1976 and 1978 at the Grunwick photo-processing plant in Willesden, north London; indeed, many of those present had participated in the historic events of that time. The ‘star’speaker in the opening session was Jayaben Desai, the iconic South Asian woman who led the strike. Jack Dromey, Arthur Scargill and Derek Walsh, all white male trade unionists, spoke emphatically about the importance of solidarity between different workers, hailing Grunwick as a victory for organised labour and the union movement, ignoring the fact that it ended in a defeat for a group of minority women workers seeking recognition and dignity at work.The afternoon session of the event, devoted to discussion of migrant workers and trade unionism, highlighted the issues of representation and inclusion still further. Dromey was joined on the platform by South Asian feminist activist Amrit Wilson and two South Asian women (SAW) and their children who were involved in a dispute with their former employer, Gate Gourmet, an airline food preparation firm based at Heathrow Airport. The women argued that there were parallels between their struggle and that of earlier generations of SAW in Britain, not least because they had been deserted, rather than supported, by the trade union movement. Dromey, then Deputy General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) as well as the Treasurer of the Labour Party, insisted that his and other unions were the champions of migrant workers in the United Kingdom and angrily rejected the women’s accusations. As in the Grunwick dispute, the battle lines over whose account should become the authorised version were sharply drawn.