ICEM’s Palestinian Women’s Project Begins with Training Workshops

The ICEM’s joint project with affiliate General Union of Petroleum, Mining and Chemical Workers of Palestine (GUPMCWP) to develop leadership of women began 10-12 June in Amman, Jordan. Heavily supported by NOPEF, Norway’s dominant oil union, the seminar was attended by 23 women from GUPMCWP.

 

Workshops dealt with collective bargaining and health issues, and were led by ICEM Women’s Officer Carol Bruce and Turid Øygard of NOPEF. ICEM’s two Jordanian affiliates, General Union of Petrol and Chemical Workers Union, and the General Trade Union of Workers in Mining and Metal Industries, cooperated in developing the workshops.

Union-building work with GUPMCWP, as well as work in support of unions in Iraq, has been identified as a priority by the ICEM’s Middle East/North Africa Region, and the initial women’s project with ICEM’s Palestinian affiliate was agreed to in 2005 by the ICEM’s Secretariat and GUPMCWP leadership.

A report of the meeting can be found in Arabic here and in English here.