Essay About Tla Womens Wing And Fair Treatment

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Roots of STFC
Event Description
Objective(s)
Entity Formed: Textile Labour Union (TLA), Ahmedabad
Initiated By: Mahatma Gandhi and Anasuyaben Sarabhai
To secure and maintain fair working conditions and wages for textile workers
Late 1960s
Entity Formed: TLA Womens Wing
To provide labor-rights to textile workers wives and daughters who were working as informal workers
Entity Formed: TLA, Self Employed Womens Association (SEWA), Ahmedabad
To demand fair treatment towards self employed women and to fight for being entitled to legal rights as workers
1972 and following years
Initiated By: Ela Bhatt
Entity Formed: SEWA granted trade union status
Starting development services needed for and by SEWA members
To work for women empowerment, upliftment and recognition
For health and child care, literacy training and technical education
Urban based union began to organize self-employed rural women working in agriculture trade
SEWA separated from TLA due to differences in ideology
The confluence of three movements – the labour movement, the co-operative movement and the womens movement gave birth to SEWA : A Revolution
Advocated for policy changes
To ensure full employment defined as security of food, income and social status at the household level
New SEWA branches in rural areas:
To explore the womens traditional embroidery skills and bring them into organized sector
To provide sustainable income throughout