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6 February, 2015Union training for mining workers is nothing new. An event organized recently by IndustriALL affiliate Los Mineros of Mexico was a workshop with a difference, however: here, the participants were all women.
A growing number of women are employed in Mexico’s mining industry which barely a decade ago was entirely dominated by men. The ‘Women of Steel’ workshop, supported by the USW, was aimed at promoting equal opportunities and the empowerment of women both in the industry and in trade unions. The workshop was conducted at Goldcorp’s Minera Peñasquito, a company which is implementing programmes aimed at integrating women into the workforce.