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    Re: women's safety Archived Message

    Posted by margo on December 28, 2018, 10:26 pm, in reply to "women's safety"

    Victory in some American hotels.
    American hotel workers are often on contract: alienated labour. They are also often foreigners, far from home, often driven by poverty. Thanks to #MeToo, a tiny percentage of hotel workers are now safer at work, but their overall situation (better wages, being able to find work in their home countries which struggle with IMF debts and development issues, etc) has not improved. Is the MeToo movement also fighting for these issues, on workers' behalf? Does anyone know? Can anyone provide a list of MeToo projects and goals?

    How about the women who aren't lucky enough to work in rich people's hotels? How about the women who work on farms, who clean toilets at McDonalds, wash dishes and nanny rich peoples' kids - and who are vulnerable to many problems, like potential sexual harassment and lack of financial clout to take perpetrators to court. Panic buttons aren't a clear option in those cases.

    you refer to 'the System', WV. The biggest problem might not be that the System 'diverts attention from imperialism, etc' but rather that the System actually depends on and reproduces racism and sexism ie. generates new forms of oppression or benefits from old ones - because it has to do so in order to continue functioning.
    The System needs grunt workers.
    Keeping low-waged female toilet cleaners safe from privileged hotel-goers is the very least the System should do - and should have been doing for decades already, surely? The System profits via semi-skilled workers and the wage system: it should work harder to keep its workers happy. It's shocking that The System has to be nudged along by the MeToo movement. MeToo has done sterling work in the US hotel sector... but it has its work cut out for it!


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