*Union President Barrette Green Has Cost Washington State Millions Of
Dollars: *Not in pay, or benefits, or wasted resources, but in sexual
harassment lawsuits
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011832151_green11m.html>.
The latest has just been settled.
Washington state and a public-employees union have agreed to pay
nearly $1 million to settle a sexual-harassment lawsuit stemming
from the actions of a former Western State Hospital official accused
of abusing at least 15 female employees before he was fired in 2003.
The actions of Barrette Green have now cost the state nearly $3
million --- plus attorney's fees --- and prompted the Department of
Social and Health Services (DSHS) to revamp its sexual-harassment
policies and training.
Green is accused of using, or perhaps I should say, abusing, his
position as union president.
In addition, Green was accused of using his position as president of
a Washington Federation of State Employees union local to threaten
and intimidate hospital workers who might complain about him
His union presidency may explain why he was promoted while he was
harassing so many women, so aggressively.
The article does not say whether the officials who hired and promoted
him have been fired, or even reprimanded.
He has not been prosecuted for his misdeeds at Western State, why I am
not sure. (If you have an explanation, pass it along, especially if you
know more about criminal law than I do.)
Cross posted at Sound Politics <http://www.soundpolitics.com>.
(For those unfamiliar with Washington politics: Washington's governors
have been Democrats since the 1984 election. DSHS has been plagued by
scandals for years, perhaps decades.)
- 12:45 PM, 11 May 2010 [link]
<http://www.seanet.com/%7Ejimxc/Politics/May2010_2.html#jrm8699>
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