Dirty
Laundry: An Investigation
By
Annie Hylton, Dissent
Summer
2017
Drying
and ironing press at an industrial laundry facility (xtrekx / Shutterstock)
It
was before 6 a.m. on January 5, 2011 when Marlyn Gonzalez drove through
darkness and freezing cold into the parking lot of the commercial laundry where
she worked in Southampton, New York. After she dropped off her mother, who also
worked at Suffolk Laundry, and parked her car, Gonzalez was surprised to find
her manager, Rajindra Singh, waiting for her in the lot. When she tried to get
out of her car, Singh blocked her. He put his hand on Gonzalez’s knee, running
it all the way up to what she called her “intimate parts” and told her that he
wanted “to touch [her] pussy.”
Gonzalez
got away from Singh by telling him she had a boyfriend. She got to her
workstation at the laundry and began feeding sheets into a machine. “I was
shaking. I was very nervous. I felt my blood boiling,” she described in a later
testimony.
This
incident, which Marlyn Gonzalez recounted to me in an interview, was part of a
lawsuit brought in 2012 by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC),
suing Suffolk Laundry Services for a sexually hostile work environment and for
retaliation by management against all eight plaintiffs when they complained.
Suffolk denied both charges.[…]
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Tom
Cat Workers Rally to Launch Next Phase of Campaign
By
Brandworkers
August 29, 2017
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| Tom Cat workers. Photo: Erik McGregor/Sipa via AP Images |
Tom
Cat workers resisting the company's collaboration with a Trump administration
ICE audit are ready to launch the next phase of their campaign and they need
you to stand with them. Workers are demanding that Tom Cat a) pay dignified
severance so they can rebuild their lives and b) adopt an immigrant worker
protection policy for those who remain, which will serve as a model to other
employers in the Trump-era.
The
rally, hosted by Brandworkers, Immigrant Worker Justice, and the Food Chain
Workers Alliance, will be held Thursday, September 7, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm. Meet
up at 51st Street and 7th Avenue in Manhattan.
More
information:
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