Chapter:
32 - Women
Mover:
Rosalind Read
Seconder:
Anna Norton
 
 
Source:
Union: CFMEU
My Private Notes


Preamble
​Trapped in the intersection of class and patriarchy the ACT Government has failed working women in the
construction industry. Despite years of resolutions of support from this conference and a platform change
specifying the need for a procurement quota to support women’s participation in the construction industry
ACT Government has neither made nor implemented procurement policy which provides support for the
meaningful change needed to disrupt the discriminatory hiring practices which are both the cause and the
consequence of gender inequity for construction workers.

The call for procurement quotas comes from women who are actually working in the construction industry
who know what is needed and is also supported by extensive research.
General Resolution

Gender On the Tender

​This conference calls on ACT Government to stop platforming management driven passion projects, wellintentioned but lacking in current insight into the lived experience of construction workers or any rigorous understanding of contemporary research on disrupting gender segregation, and appropriate work, health and safety perspectives. Instead, Government must listen to construction women workers and implement the procurement quota they have been asking for since 2017.

Further this conference directs the Minister for Procurement and the Minister for Women to make a report to Branch Council every month until such time as a policy consistent with the party platform is made and applied to ACT government construction procurement.