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Your comment is quite disingenuous. First, harassed employee can also be union member, and then should protect him/her as well. Second, harassers are often bein

by js8 10y ago

Your comment is quite disingenuous. First, harassed employee can also be union member, and then should protect him/her as well. Second, harassers are often being bosses or in other position of authority relatively to the harassed. So it's actually more likely for the harassed to be a union member. Look for example at recent Fox News scandals. It's quite unlikely that C-level executives are members of the unions. (BTW, funny that you quote Fox News about covering sexual harassment.)

yummyfajitas 10y ago
You can find similar stories in other publications, and in other countries: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/22/teachers-who-sexually-abuse-students-still-find-classroom-jobs/95346790/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/22/teachers-who-s... http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/20120328/union-threatens-to-sue-mother-accusing-west-covina-teacher-of-physical-assault-on-son http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/20120328/union-threat... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/02/unite-union-female-officers-bullying-harassment-internal-report https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/02/unite-union... You are simply wrong - the union is obligated to do their best to protect the jobs/rights of their members. That includes union members accused of sexual harassment.
- andy_ppp 10y ago
  The Guardian article is an interesting one and is about a union performing studies internally that leaked. It shows that Unions can be horribly sexist or racist, just like society at large can also be. I think the point remains that having a union to talk to is useful for many reasons and they absolutely should help resolve sexual harassment cases; the fact that they haven't in these examples does not prove that unions can't be a good thing. Maybe women only Unions should be a thing; they have more of a right than anyone to ask for better pay and conditions being paid a lot less than their male colleagues.

by js8 10y ago

yummyfajitas 10y ago

You can find similar stories in other publications, and in other countries: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/22/teachers-who-sexually-abuse-students-still-find-classroom-jobs/95346790/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/12/22/teachers-who-s... http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/20120328/union-threatens-to-sue-mother-accusing-west-covina-teacher-of-physical-assault-on-son http://www.sgvtribune.com/general-news/20120328/union-threat... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/02/unite-union-female-officers-bullying-harassment-internal-report https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/02/unite-union... You are simply wrong - the union is obligated to do their best to protect the jobs/rights of their members. That includes union members accused of sexual harassment.

andy_ppp 10y ago
The Guardian article is an interesting one and is about a union performing studies internally that leaked. It shows that Unions can be horribly sexist or racist, just like society at large can also be. I think the point remains that having a union to talk to is useful for many reasons and they absolutely should help resolve sexual harassment cases; the fact that they haven't in these examples does not prove that unions can't be a good thing. Maybe women only Unions should be a thing; they have more of a right than anyone to ask for better pay and conditions being paid a lot less than their male colleagues.