>(Similar thing happened here with federal government and Bell Canada. >Female clerical workers were much lower paid than male workers doing >"jobs of equal value". The dispute went on for years and years and >finally we were given our backpay (after about 14-16 years) and then >we were paid interest on the amount of the under payment. > >I'm not sure if the Bell dispute is finally settled, but it went on longer >than the government dispute. > >Malvary
That's sometimes called 'fighting fires'. Instead of changing their practices, corporation here hire whole departments of attorneys to fight cases in court, costing the employee/employees who *dare/s* to complain money and sometimes their health. And blacklists the individuals when the corporation *does*, occasionally, lose. I know. I had neither the money nor good health going into a situation like that. And then the company went one step farther and hired a hatchet-man who got rid of all the higher-paid employees in a particular department, for one reason or another, including a few trumped-up reasons, for which he probably still receives nice bonuses because he did the actual bloody-hands 'work' and can 'live with it' while they, who paid/pay him for it, have 'clean hands' and sleep good at night. The method reminds me of the it currently in the White House - 'give them bread and circuses' (Iraq/Homeland Security/colored warnings) while it's setting up a police state, building databases, identifying citizens . . . Like Rome - America, you *will have been* a great land . . . Toni in Seattle To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
