The 81st Annual STUC Women’s Conference

The 81st Annual STUC Women’s Conference was held in Perth at the Perth Concert Hall on Monday 17th Tuesday and Tuesday 18th November 2008.

With the theme ‘Think Global, Act Local’, the 2008 STUC Women’s Conference considered a wide range of issues, including: protecting and representing female migrant workers; campaigning to tackle violence against women in the home and in the workplace; defending and extending women’s rights at work; and tackling low wages and child poverty.

Speakers included Shona Robison MSP Minister for Public Health; Elish Angiolini Lord Advocate; Isobel Lindsay Scottish CND, and Julie Bindel, journalist and campaigner.

A copy of the decisions of the Conference is available here.

For more information please contact Ann Henderson, Assistant Secretary, at the STUC.