Venezuela: Begins 3rd Women’s Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Transport Federation

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The Third International Women's Meeting of the United Federation of Transportation of Latin America and the Caribbean kicked off on Wednesday in Venezuela. Our correspondent Cha Dafol brings us details. teleSUR

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00:00In other news, the third international women's meeting of the United Federation of Transportation

00:05of Latin America and the Caribbean kicked off on Wednesday in Venezuela.

00:09Our correspondent Chala Fall with the details.

00:13The last manolitus movement formed by women of the United Federation of Transportation

00:20of Latin America and the Caribbean inaugurated its third international meeting this Wednesday

00:25in Caracas. Under the slogan of social justice and gender equity, the event invites to reflect

00:30from a feminist perspective on the current challenges of the trade union and anti-fascist

00:34struggle.

00:34This meeting is an exchange. You know that what knowledge is, we have been dominated more

00:43by ignorance really than by force. And these are the moments of awakening, symposiums that

00:48really nourish the wisdom of us as women, that invite us to be able to unite in a single feeling

00:52and to know that we are not alone.

00:59Promoting unity among women transport workers also means recognizing the progress made in

01:05recent. In this historically male-dominated sector, women have been able to conquer their

01:09space and gain more visibility.

01:11In principle, now that women are driving, that they are driving buses, that they are driving

01:18ships, that they can drive subway cars. That has been the first advance, because even collectively,

01:23socially, it is something that cannot be digested very well now. Then the trade union issue,

01:28which is an important moment among women because it is a space that used to be absolutely masculine.

01:33Today, women stand out not only as drivers, but also in administrative, technical and training

01:45areas, leading the processes of innovation and transformation of society as a whole.

01:49That is, are women arranging, knowing the structures of the different means of transportation,

01:57participating in that knowledge, and also in the construction of new proposals from that

02:01level. So, it is not only because sometimes we think that they are transporters, or that

02:05they are the ones who drive some of our means of transportation, no, it is much more than that.

02:10It is even technical and professional training in the sector which, as you mentioned, was historically

02:20an exclusive sector for the attention, for the training, for the participation of men, and

02:24it seemed that women could not be there.

02:29The presence of hundreds of male delegates at the opening ceremony joining this mobilization

02:37of women is surprising. However, for them there is no contradiction in this.

02:44Because we believe that this is an integration, it is not a conflict, or should not be a conflict,

02:49between men and women. We have a common enemy, which is capitalism, which is the governments,

02:53and the businessmen who benefit from it. And therefore, the unity between men and women

02:58and the spaces that we should all have should be in function of the project.

03:04This great meeting will last two days, and more than a thousand Venezuelan and international

03:11representatives are expected to participate. In the face of the growth of fascism worldwide,

03:16women workers in Latin America are empowered and united to defend peace and social justice.

03:21Chada Folk, from Caracas, Venezuela, for Tele Sur.

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