Working Women’s Charter
Sir,—The Labour Opposition in Parliament rightly condemns the Government’s voluntary unionised bill as an industrial time bomb and supports the inclusion of the unqualified preference clause requiring employers to employ only union labour. In 1980 the Labour Party’s conference overwhelmingly endorsed the communist-inspired Working Women’s Charter which is anti-family and anti-life, depriving the unborn of all legal protection. It appears that the charter is also anti-union. Clause 1 of the charter states, “the right to work for everyone.” Taken literally it may be inferred that everyone has the right to work without any obliga-
tion to belong to a union. The charter is dangerous, imprecise and unnecessary. If the Labour Party wants to woo the electorate by regaining the middle ground espoused by Mr Lange it should, in the best interests of the family, the unborn, and the trade union movement, promptly renounce this charter.—Yours, etc., MARGARET BUCKLEY. September 20, 1983.
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