[Editor’s Note – In honor of International Working Women’s Day, the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC) and its constituent organizations have created and published a resolution succinctly describing, in their words: NLOC’s “basic orientation towards work in the trade union movement among women”. The resolution is being re-published and distributed through the NLOC’s shop paper networks among workers in their shops and sectors, and can also be found on New Labor Press. The Partisan is also re-publishing it below so that the resolution reaches our audience, and we encourage comrades to study NLOC’s call, implement it, and reach out to NLOC at newlaboroc@proton.me to send their thoughts and be connected up to the great work being done in the labor sector.]

The following resolution was approved by the delegates of the labor organizations associated with the New Labor Organizing Committee (NLOC) to serve as the basic orientation towards work in the trade union movement among women.

WHEREAS the state unions have systematically surrendered the basic rights and demands of working women;

WHEREAS approximately one third of working women in the US report sexual harassment in the workplace and approximately one third of women in the US are subjected to sexual assault at least once in life;

WHEREAS full-time working women earn approximately eleven thousand dollars a year less per capita than working men;

WHEREAS the current Trump administration is targeting transgender, migrant, and national and ethnic minority women specifically for repression;

WHEREAS the issues facing working women cannot be solved under imperialist dictatorship as exists in the US;

BE IT RESOLVED the New Labor organizations methodically strengthen the trade union organization of working women in the US by militantly pursuing their demands and enhancing their political consciousness amidst the trade union struggle;

BE IT RESOLVED the New Labor organizations combat misogyny and transphobia within the ranks of the trade union movement as the only means of accomplishing trade union unity between working men, women, and nonbinary people;

FURTHERMORE the main method in combating misogyny and transphobia inside the trade union movement is criticism and self-criticism of individuals and organizations promoting misogyny and transphobia, while the main method for resolving the grievances of women and LGBT people is the work stoppage, making the defense of their right to strike a fundamental responsibility of all trade unionists;

WHERE POSSIBLE the New Labor organizations will establish Women’s Grievance Committees, led by women organizers from the existing New Labor organizations but inclusive to women outside of their normal jurisdiction, including intellectual workers, lower management, and unemployed women. Their purpose is organizing the non-proletarian and semi-proletarian women to fight for their political and economic demands under the leadership of working women, including the right to terminate the employment of violent offenders.