Diana HOLLAND

Biographical note
Diana Holland is Assistant General Secretary : Transport & Equalities for the ITF affiliate UNITE in the UK. She is chair of the ITF Women Transport Workers Committee, ITF Executive Board member and former chair of the global ITUC Women’s Committee. A long-standing national and international campaigner on equalities, core labour standards, poverty, violence against women, migrant domestic workers,  under-representation of women, black, Asian & ethnic minority, disabled, young and LGBT workers, her experience includes negotiations on Women in the bus industry with London Buses and on Dignity at Work with major bus companies, ITF anti-sexism campaign, lead negotiator in the 2012 tanker driver “Enough is Enough” campaign which achieved the Petroleum Driver Passport, and campaigning for UK rail supply workers.

Presentation: Women need Transport and Transport needs Women
Women are high users of public transport and yet women are under-represented as workers in many parts of public transport. The International Transport Workers Federation brings together unions representing women transport workers across the world – with direct experience of addressing the barriers that exist, and of achieving positive changes that can make a real difference.  This includes union action to support women transport workers tackle job segregation and lack of women in leadership roles, access to jobs, recruitment procedures, equal pay, maternity and family friendly policies, health and safety, welfare and appropriate uniforms. Action on violence and harassment against women and girls on public transport – passengers and workers – is vital not just for individual working women, but for families and for communities too.