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1. “Stretching back to 1968”…?
(a) The Equal pay act was updated because the EEC defended our right to equal pay.
(b) That right was bestowed on us by the EEC before the Equal Pay Act ever came into force.
(c) It goes back a long way before 1968.
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(a) The Equal pay act was updated because the EEC defended our right to equal pay.
(b) That right was bestowed on us by the EEC before the Equal Pay Act ever came into force.
(c) It goes back a long way before 1968.
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2. It was 1888 when Clementina Black moved the first TUC equal pay resolution, however, the female workforce was small, the unions were male dominated.
3. The outbreak of the First World War changed this. The suffragist movement encouraged women into the workforce to help the war effort and began to engage with the male unions, although not always constructively...
