WorkersPolicyProject

Image reproduced with the permission of Sheffield Archives (5WCC/A/6/12). The cartoon was produced for WASH and published jointly as one of three postcards by Everywoman magazine and Wildcat Cards in 1992.

Over the coming weeks we'll be sharing the campaigns that have tried to change this, and asking why we're still here. #EndNotDefend

In 1992, Women Against Sexual Harassment helped over 400 women in a single year — with thousands more calling their phone line. Decades on, the fight is the same. 🧵

Thanks to Janet, our brilliant trustee, and to Chorley Trades Council for inviting End Not Defend to talk about stopping the millions of cases of workplace sexual harassment that happen every year - destroyed livelihoods and health.

"I have lost a job I loved, a job that I was good at, where I made a difference, through no fault of my own." For victims of workplace sexual harassment, speaking up costs everything. Help us make the system work for survivors, not against them. #EndNotDefend

You don't fix a toxic workplace by silencing workers

"My employer has a policy in the health care system, they never enacted it, there's been no consequences." This is why reporting still isn't safe. Words on paper mean nothing without accountability. Help us push for real consequences

End sexual harassment in work - no worker should accept harassment of any sort - it undermines your health and wellbeing it makes you ill - its abuse,!it’s bullying and it’s only steps away from sexual harassment . It must not be tolerated and your union must defend the victim. Well done to those campaigning on this issue - it’s important.

@kateevelynber @workerspolicy @rightsofwomen We need employers to treat it like any other safety risk and put in place controls before women are assaulted. This would begin to eliminate it from the workplace.

"My employer made it very clear - protect the abuser. And if you're a victim? Don't bother coming forward." This is why survivors stay silent at work. And why we're fighting to change it. Sexual harassment must be treated like any work safety issue and prevented #EndNotDefend

980,000 people lose their jobs every year because they were sexually harassed at work. Because the system failed them. Workplace sexual harassment isn't just an equality issue - it's a health and safety crisis. It's time it was treated like one. #EndNotDefend

The issue of sexual harassment in the workplace must be raised before it even happens. It’s a health and safety issue. No one waits for someone to slip on an oil spillage before the danger of spilt oil is raised. It’s our safety our wellbeing it’s our right. We must end it now.

"I felt unable to return to work, not just because of my mental health, but because of the shame." This is what reporting costs. Not justice. Shame. Isolation. Forced out. The government must treat workplace sexual harassment as the health & safety issue it is. #EndNotDefend

Greater Manchester Police have sacked 5 officers for gross sexual misconduct - but the Disciplinary Tribunal has granted them and the force ‘anonymity orders’ Just another example of the system protecting perpetrators and silencing survivors. examinerlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-…

"There is so much shame when you're sexually harassed. You blame yourself. You think, what could I have done differently?" But the system was built to protect employers, not workers. That has to change — and we're raising money to make it happen. 👇#EndNotDefend

@workerspolicy How can women ever get any justice when then they are denied the opportunity to take a case to tribunal because they are still traumatised by the assault and haven’t completed the application in 3months?

Workplace sexual harassment causes PTSD, depression, insomnia and high blood pressure. Reporting it shouldn't make things worse. Until it's treated as a health and safety issue with real enforcement, workers are left to manage the damage alone. #EndNotDefend