Those using the pill or condoms are paid three days late, and those who refuse to comply have to wait a further week. The issue of reproductive rights is critically important for Indonesian women. Abortion is illegal. Untold hundreds of poor women die from backyard operations. There is also no socially oraganized childcare.
Wealthy women hire servants to care for their children.
The servants labor seven days a week, start work at five in the morning and work until late at night. Alison Thorne is a union activist in Melbourne and an editor for the Australian Freedom Socialist Bulletin . Her article comes via the Freedom Socialist national office in Seattle. In the past year, large union-busting efforts have occurred in Liverpool, England, New Zealand, and Australia. Roughly 2,000 MUA members were fired by the company Patrick Stevedores earlier this year, sparking large community-backed demonstrations in Melbourne and port cities nationwide.