{"id":27225,"date":"2025-03-07T10:54:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/?post_type=news&p=27225"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:06:15","slug":"uni-international-womens-day-message-8m","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/uni-international-womens-day-message-8m\/","title":{"rendered":"UNI GS on International Women’s Day: We must sound the alarm for women\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNI Global Union General Secretary Christy Hoffman issues an urgent International Women’s Day message:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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This International Women\u2019s Day, we must sound the alarm. Around the world, far-right politicians \u2013 supported by corporations caving to their regressive demands \u2013 are rolling back our legal, economic and reproductive protections at a shocking pace. We must unite, organize and fight back.<\/p>\r\n

Earlier this year at the World Economic Forum, I listened as Argentinian President Javier Milei unleashed hateful attacks against the LGBTI+ community, likening them to paedophiles, and promised to roll back safeguards against femicide. His vile words are not empty threats. His government has already dismantled the Ministry of Women\u2019s Affairs, forcing gender-based violence survivors to without institutional support.<\/p>\r\n

This is not an isolated incident. It is part of a worldwide backlash against women\u2019s equality.<\/p>\r\n

In the United States, the Trump administration has weaponized Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), attempting to turn something with fairness at its core into a partisan slur.<\/p>\r\n

My first union job was in a jet engine facility which produced, in part, for the US military. It was no secret that I was hired because of Executive Order 11246 \u2014 issued in 1965! \u2014 which required equal opportunities across US government contractors. It was hardly a \u201cwoke\u201d environment back then, but nevertheless the order opened the doors for people like me. Sixty years later, Trump\u00a0 shamefully tore down this scaffolding by revoking the order on his very first day in office, in the name of “merit.”\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0The women who benefited from that rule, like me, showed that we could excel in roles traditionally denied to us. Now, my daughter\u2019s generation may lose those same opportunities.<\/p>\r\n

Disturbingly, major corporations are caving to this hostility toward equality. Companies like Accenture, Amazon, Meta and Pepsi have scaled back or abandoned DEI initiatives in the wake of Trump\u2019s election. We cannot let corporate cowardice stop our progress.<\/p>\r\n

We cannot let far-right politicians \u2013 be it Argentina or South Korea, Hungary or the United States, or anywhere else \u2013 attack our rights. They will not rob us of the future we deserve.<\/p>\r\n

That is why on this International Women\u2019s Day, we are sounding the alarm. We stand in solidarity with all sisters and allies worldwide: Organize, resist and move forward together.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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\u26a0\ufe0fSound the alarm for women's rights.\r\n\r\n\u270aWomen's rights are under attack. We have to organize, mobilize and fight back!\r\n\r\n#IWD2025\r\n#8M\r\nuniglobalunion.org\/news\/uni-int…
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\r\n[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n— UNI Global Union (@uniglobalunion.org<\/a>) March 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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