Hackney TUC President Janine Booth recently attended TUC Women's Conference as a delegate from RMT. Click the links below to read entries from a her personal weblog about events and debates at the Conference.

• Women's Pay: Mind the Gap (in which delegates decry the weakness of the Women And Work Commission)

• Iraqi and Kurdish Women Speak Out (in which international guests speak to conference)

• Trade Union Rights are Women's Rights (in which Janine speaks at a fringe meeting promoting the Trade Union Freedom Bill)

• Where are the Women? (in which Janine plugs the RMT Women's Charter but bemoans the lack of women in the upper reaches of the union)

• An Annual Demonstration for Working Women's Rights? Yes Please! (in which the RMT's resolution is passed unanimously and enthusiastically)

• Speaking Out About Schools (in which Janine vents her spleen about the government's woeful Education Bill)