Women’s news and viewpoint By MICKEY BEAGLE There is no justification for discrimination against women as far as equal pay is concerned. Shoppers encounter the same price tags on merchandise, rents and services, regardless of their sex, There are many more reasons why women should receive equal pay for equal work, Equal pay would immediately increase consumer purchasing power, Equal pay would secure a better deal for men by dis- couraging employers from hiring women at lower rates of pay, When women are paid lower rates than men for performing equal work, one group is set against the other, thus limiting the struggle to unite for higher standards for all, It is a matter of simple justice and logic for women to receive the same pay as men for doing equal work, Not many people or organi- zations would disagree with the principle of equal pay for women, - but there are too few who do anything about it, Equal pay laws have been instituted in eight provinces of Canada since 1951 and federal equal pay legislation was passed in 1956, These laws are aiwelcome addition to the labor laws of Canada but they are far from adequate, Women teachers and women employed in government offices have benefitted by the equal pay law in B.C, and their wages were brought in line with that of men doing the same work, but in- dustrial workers, because equal work is not necessarily the same work, have not received any bene- fit from the equal pay law. * * A definition of what constitutes equal work has not been resolved, Work done by women is often of equal intensity, equal value, equal in hours of work, equal in pro- duction but unequal in the matter of the pav cheque. Many employers circumvent the equal pay laws by maintain- ing that work done by women is not the “same” as that done by men, therefore it is not equal, Many explanations of what con- stitutes equal work have been ad- vanced, e.g., “work of equal value,” “similar work,” “where job content is equal.” Butrarely does management agree that work is equal unless it is exactly the same, But even where work is exactly the same, we find women working for lower pay, To insure that women are paid the same rate of pay for equal work, a base minimum rate for Geeeeesoes general labor work regardless of the sex of the worker, should be established in all union agree- ments and in the equal pay laws, In most of the equal pay laws, the penalty to the employer for violations of the act is $100.00, Proving a case of discrimination is sO cumbersome and involves so much red tape that very few, if any, cases are fought through, The examination ofa number of trade union agreements reveals that’ jobs done by women are classified and many of the rates of pay for classified jobs are lower than the general labor base- pay for men in the same agree- ment, This situation prevails to a greater or lesser degree in practically all agreements covering industrial workers, For many years labor unions - have fought for equal pay for women, As early as 1882, The Toronto Trades*and Labor Coun- cil stated in its first platform of principles, under point three, “Equal pay for both sexes.” The battle for equal pay continued through two world wars and still women have not attained economic equality, The National Council of Wo- men, from the time ofits founding convention in 1893, has advocated the establishment of legislation concerning equal pay. There has been marked im- provement in some fields over the years, since 1913in Montreal when women teachers were paid just half the salary of male teachers, Women can achieve equal pay if they insist on changes in their union agreements that will es- tablish a base rate for both men and women, Also, women must press for amendments to the equal pay laws that will provide “severe penalties for those who violate the law, They should de- mand that the lawincludea clause indicating that equal pay be de- fined as equal pay for a general labor base rate for everyone re- gardless of the sex of the worker. It will be necessary to enlist the support of the labor movementas a whole and encourage women’s organizations all across Canada to take action to help secure’ equal pay for women, SOSSSCSESOSOSSHOSHSSCOHHOSE SOOO OWALTINE CAFE 251 EAST HASTINGS Vancouver, B.C. . 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