We should never allow this mainstreaming strategy to depoliticise the women s movement and take women s initiatives away from the struggle for emancipation. This is part of the over-all strategy conjured by the forces of monopoly capitalist globalisation. Their aim is to keep women and men under their control and negate the gains that women s and peoples movements worldwide have achieved. We cannot allow the situation to continue where more women workers lose their jobs as factories shut down or retrench their workers. Job security is subverted by the shift to contractualisation and casualisation under the policy of labor flexibilisation.
Wages are frozen and are way below the cost of living.
Unions are busted and strikes are violently dispersed. Union leaders are harassed and trade union repression makes up most of the human rights violations in the urban areas. A lot of women are forced to take jobs abroad for lack of opportunities to earn income in their own countries. The labour export policy continues, despite so many cases of physical and sexual abuse of women, because OCW remittances are a major source of revenue for Third World governments whose balance of payments is usually in the negative. Trafficking of women, whether for slave labor or prostitution, is unabated.