DRAFT PROGRAMATIC PLATFORM FOR THE NATIONAL NUMSA GENDER
STRUCTURE: 2015
1. Wellness Program
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All regions will identify a minimum of one company to undertake a wellness
screening for both men and women who are Numsa members
All regions will identify companies to take forward the SWHAP program, ILO
wellness program or for Bonitas to role out a program in Numsa companies
on the medical aid. DOH health promoters can also be used
The Numsa wellness program will focus on both communicable and noncommunicable diseases eg. HIV/Aids and cancer, diabetes etc.
2. Servicing Members: Building strong, vibrant and politically conscious
workplaces and structures for the past, present and the future
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Ensure that the Numsa Service Charter is implemented by the relevant local and
or region
3. Recruitment
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Identify companies with significant number of women and recruit
Assist in the local and or regional recruitment program in the current sectors
Assist in the local and or regional recruitment program in the infrastructure/new
scope and value chain
4. Operation Bathala
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Ensure with the relevant shopsteward councils that companies we interact
are paying the correct subscriptions over to the union
5. Campaigns
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Violence against women and children
Occupational Health and Safety
Working on Joint Gender Programs with the 8 affiliates
6. Involvement in the United Front
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Ensure that the UF is discussed at all LSSC’s and that comrades of the gender
structure establish what community struggles are taking place in the
neighbouring communities and participate as part of the UF
7. Participation in 2015 Shopsteward elections
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Ensure that all Regional and local shopsteward election task teams include the
comrades from the gender structures
Plan and target companies for visits with other female comrades and or leaders
to encourage the election of women shopstewards
8. Collective Bargaining Preparations for 2016
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Implement the Numsa resolution that all bargaining teams must include the
gender representatives
2016 Collective Bargaining must deal with the apartheid wage gap, national
minimum wage, living wages and gender demands as well as issues of health
and safety
9. Building a Numsa Gender Activist
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Develop a draft document that will deal with the several aspects of this issue:
a. Inclusion of members in the structure
b. Raising the consciousness of men and women in Numsa through political
schools/workshops
c. Developing the Numsa Gender structures into campaigning structures both on
the shop-floor and the community
d. Develop joint gender programs with other affiliates
Task team of Gender Office Bearers, NOB’s and Secretariat (that will co-opt
different expertise to assist) to circulate draft to regions and locals for discussion
before tabling it at the December CC
10. Education & Induction
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Shopsteward induction must include aspects of gender induction
Raise consciousness through political schools and workshops at all levels of the
union
11. Establishment of Structures
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All structures established must be dealing with programs and campaigns
All structures established must be properly inducted
Where there are difficulties to establish and sustain gender structures in the
workplace then other structures must deal with relevant gender issues
Attempt to put both women and men’s issues on the agenda of the structure to
prevent its isolation from other work
12. Co-ordination of Gender Work
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Appoint co-ordinators who are passionate about gender struggles
13. Support for Gender Work
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Identify and partner with civil society organisations who can assist with different
areas of work
14. National Gender Conference
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Prepare for a national gender conference in 2016 before the national congress
Debate and resolve on policy issues including the issue of building women
structures
15. Data Collation
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Gather data in relation to but not limited to:
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Number of women employed in the Numsa sectors
Number of Numsa members that are women
Number of Numsa women leaders
Number of women/gender representatives on the regional and national
bargaining teams
16. Gender Material
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Submit material, stories, poems from regions and locals for a gender column in
the Numsa News
Ensure all gender or wellness articles and pamphlets sent by HO are distributed
to the gender structures and workplaces
Record activities and events and send them to be included in the Numsa News
17. Placing Gender onto the agenda of LSSC’s and REC’s
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Request that regions and locals place gender on the agendas of its meetings
18. Focus for September to December 2015
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September to November 2015: Shopsteward elections
September/October/November 2015: Minimum of one wellness screening in
a Numsa company
December 2015: 16 days of Activism against violence against women and
children: Minimum of one program in the workplace