7 March, 2025IndustriALL is launching its new pay equity training modules for its affiliates. This practical tool aims to better equip unions in their collective bargaining and to put the value of work at the centre of wage negotiations.
Based on the toolkit published by IndustriALL in 2022, the modules focus on three essential strategies to end the gender pay:
- Pay transparency and gender pay gap reporting: How to calculate a gender pay gap? What to report on? What can unions do to promote gender pay gap reporting?
- Gender neutral job evaluation: How are skills held by women undervalued or overlooked? How to compare the value of two different jobs? How to avoid gender biases in the establishment of jobs evaluation and classification?
- Campaigning for living wages: How to campaign and bargain for living wages and ending women’s low pay?
Last September IndustriALL already trained affiliates in Sub-Saharan Africa and more recently in Turkey, using these new modules.
Following the training in Sub-Saharan Africa, trade unions have conducted surveys in several companies in Uganda, Ghana and Kenya to assess the gender pay gap. They have included this issue in ongoing collective bargaining and advocated for gender-sensitive HR policies, salary reviews and transparent promotion criteria to ensure equal opportunities for women.
“These modules provide trade unions and members of their collective bargaining teams with practical tools for negotiating an end to the gender pay gap. I encourage them to use this new tool. It can be easily adapted to each national context,”
says Armelle Seby, IndustriALL director for gender and white-collar workers.
Collective bargaining is an important tool for achieving pay equity and transparent pay systems. Studies show that when trade unions engage in collective bargaining on the issue the gender pay gap narrows.
These modules, which can be used as such, also includes slides and notes for trainers. They have been developed with the support of the Friedrich Erbert Stiftung (FES).
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