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Omaha Steve

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Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:43 PM Jun 2014

Non-Union Working Women Face Greater Challenges on the Job


http://nhlabornews.com/2014/06/non-union-working-women-face-greater-challenges-on-the-job/

In advance of the White House Summit on Working Families, the labor movement and worker groups are spending this week highlighting the stories of real working families and the challenges they face.

Today we’ll take a look at working women and moms in the workplace with the story from Bene’t Holmes. Bene’t is a 25-year-old single mother who works at Walmart in Chicago and struggles to survive on low wages. In February she suffered a miscarriage while at work, after a manager denied her request for job duties that were less physically demanding. Following her miscarriage, she asked for a leave of absence to recover and was denied that request as well. Read how Bene’t realized she needed a voice on the job and took action with the OUR Walmart campaign.

FULL story at link.

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Non-Union Working Women Face Greater Challenges on the Job (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jun 2014 OP
Kick for the working women! n/t BuelahWitch Jun 2014 #1
Makes you wonder, why does women continue to have problems in the workplace so many years after Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #2

Thinkingabout

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2. Makes you wonder, why does women continue to have problems in the workplace so many years after
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 06:42 PM
Jun 2014

Discrimination should have been settled.

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