The FKTU is constituted with 24 federations, 16 municipal and provincial chapters and 48 local chapters.
The FKTU Bureau of Women, launched in 1985, has worked to improve the rights and life of women workers. It is currently focusing on the prevention of further deterioration of employment of women workers in the wake of the economic crisis, development of new women policies, activities to come up with solutions for the imminent issues and the expansion of unionization of women workers. The FKTU Women's Committee, composed of 30 members, was established on March 30, 1991 and has been engaged in various activities to achieve a decent living and improve the economic, social and political status of women workers.
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I. FKTU Women's Committee |
Activities
 Set up mid- to long-term plans to secure women's labor rights and improve their rights and interests
Enhance equality at work
Improve welfare schemes for protection of women and maternity
Expand and strengthen women's organizations
Research and exert pressure on revision of related laws to improve women's legal status
Form women's committee at FKTU-affiliated federations, provide them with guidelines on the direction of activities and seek ways to galvanize them
Conduct surveys on the status of women workers and carry out researches
Consumer protection and environment protection activities
Implement resolutions made at the FKTU Women's Committee
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II. Main Activities of the FKTU Bureau of Women |
Strengthening women's organizations
Urge assignment of staff exclusively in charge of women's affairs at each federation
Organize non-regular workers
Hold debate tours at member unions
Strengthen union response to gender discrimination in the process of restructuring
Women policy
Push for revision of the Equal Employment Act and women related Acts
Policy to ensure employment stability of women workers
Expansion of women's participation in all levels of decision making processes
Activities for domestic and international solidarity
Activities to ensure job security of women workers, to devise unemployment measures, and to submit policy proposals
Activities for strengthening solidarity with the ICFTU-APRO Women's Committee
Workshops of women officials in the East Asian region
Activities for securing equal treatment and human rights of women workers
Host the National Women Workers' Convention in collaboration with three other organizations in commemoration of the 91st anniversary of the March 8 International Women's Day
A month-long activities for the improvement of equality and human rights of women workers
Host the 1999 National Women Workers' Convention
Hold the commemoration event in the Month of Equal Employment
Activities of the FKTU Women's Committee
Host conventions and seminars
promote the establishment of Women's Committee of each member union
Labor related cultural activities
Develop vitalization measures for cultural activities team, and encourage its formation
Providing training for and convening meetings of labor culture activities leaders
Updating data on the current status of member unions, local chapters, and FKTU singing and dancing team
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III. Core Activitives of 1999 |
Organizing small and micro workplaces and non-regular workers
Research activities (compiling statistical data on the current status of non-regular workers working at organized workplaces)
Public relations activities (distribution of leaflets and various other publications encouraging non-regular women workers to join a union)
Integrate workers into existing unions and encourage non-regular workers to join an organized union
Vitalize joint activities in collaboration with other organizations and internal discussions to specify multi-step projects
To eliminate gender discrimination within unions, a greater emphasis will be placed on widening the scope of women's participation in decision making bodies and executive organs.
Demand a quota system for better representation of women workers to institutionalize and widen the scope of women's participation in decision making bodies
Form a working measures committee for policy on and unionization of women workers
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