Women and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… decided that the secretary role should be in the hands of one of the workers, and Abrahams, already a shop steward, was … 1927 . Although she was able to escape to Lesotho with her one-month-old baby the night before she was due to be … and the West Coast fishing communities, the FCWU became one of the most effective unions of the era. Within it, women …