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To: LindyBill who wrote (99786)	2/10/2005 5:23:55 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793895

Redstate - Paid leave... once/month By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Miscellania The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) wants some things from Toyota. Six-hundred things. According to the Australian Associated Press (AAP), the AMWU demands "employer-provided childcare, 10 per cent annual pay rises for three years and superannuation payments of 15 per cent by 2007." They also believe that women should have paid leave from work, once a month, for... er, cycling. (No pedals involved.) "A lot of women have terribly bad periods and they are genuinely ill and we simply say that has to be recognised." It was the first time the AMWU had tried to win menstrual leave provisions, he said. "Every negotiation we do provides us with pointers to pursue elsewhere, but only where it's relevant, I mean we wouldn't be pursuing menstrual leave in a foundry." This would apply only to women with especially rough cycles and no one else, quipped AMWU Vehicle Division federal secretary Ian Jones, "unless men can grow a womb." 'T is priceless, it is.