My apologies R-J for doubling up again. I thought I had checked, but my search was for 'Oh TI' rather than 'Old TI'. Anyhow, I added a little extra info and the original.

In light of the recent mass protests by Australia women, it is pertinent to note that women have had some victories against male-dominated organisations.

THE GIANT FEELS THEIR STING
(Sue Edmonds 1985)

There's stories 'bout the heroes
Who faced the giant's wrath
Tales about the heroines
Forced to spin gold cloth
Jack and the beanstalk
Rumplestiltskin the Dwarf
Now the women from Wollongong
Have met the giant's force

Chorus:
The giant's made of iron and steel
Didn't feel a thing
But the women worked together
Now the giant feels their sting

This giant big Australian
Had the pickings of the crop
Only used the work of men
To keep it at the top
Women were rejected
Without a second thought
So 34 good women
Took the giant to the court

Chorus

Out heroines of history
Fought for equal rights
Now we're fighting for a job
We face the giant's might
We've learnt to work together
Like the Amazons of old
Make that mighty patriarch
To loose its might hold

This is the first song in the 1988 publication by the Victorian Trade Union Labour Day Celebration Committee: 'Strike a Light: Contemporary songs of Australian working Life' Selected and Edited by Gillian Harrison. The song with its tune is printed at page 11.

Note with the song:

In 1985, 34 women for Wollongong won their case against Australian Iron and Steel in the Equal Opportunity Tribunal in New South Wales. The tribunal found that the 55 complaints of sex discrimination on the basis of delaying hiring of women, retrenchment procedures, threat of retrenchment and sexist attitudes among senior company officers were all substantiated. It had taken years of persistence to get jobs in the traditionally male steelworks, only to lose them during the steel crisis in the early 1980s. The decision was a major triumph for the Jobs-for-Women Campaign and has had far-reaching consequences on business practice throughout the country. For the women, it brought to an end nearly six years years of what they said was 'fighting for the right to work'. The song by Sue Edmonds is a tribute to those who fought and won this landmark case'.

Australian Iron and Steel was owned by BHP.

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--Stewie.