Alberta Conservative House Leader Fired Single Mother After She Complained of Sexual Harassment

Alberta Conservative House Leader Fired Single Mother After She Complained of Sexual Harassment:

allthecanadianpolitics:

A company owned by United Conservative Party house leader Jason Nixon was fined by British Columbia’s Human Rights Tribunal for firing a woman after she complained she was being sexually harassed at work.

First reported by the Edmonton Journal, the revelation is surfacing at the same time as Jason Kenney’s Conservatives are fighting new provincial legislation aimed at protecting women from workplace harassment.

According to a 2008 BC Human Rights Tribunal ruling, the UCP house leader fired a single mother of three after she confided to him that a co-worker in a position of  authority was “touching and propositioning her.”

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ACA isn’t enough: single-payer is a feminist issue

mostlysignssomeportents:

Any health-care system that depends on employers or wages is going to privilege the people with the highest-paid jobs (men) and take away power from people who do the bulk of unwaged work (women).

The Affordable Care Act decoupled your ability to not perish of preventable disease or misadventure from your relationship with your employer, empowering you to leave a bad boss without risking death.

But because ACA required its users to pay cash into the system, it bound women to abusive men just as surely as it bound employees to abusive employers.

The human potential of a society must not be squandered by shackling good people to bad firms or bad husbands.

Single payer – the system overwhelming used in other developed countries, who spend less per capita and deliver better health outcomes than Americans suffer through – is the only just system.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/11/unwaged-work-is-real-work.html

Yes.

And Universal Basic Income would be good, too :)

ACA isn’t enough: single-payer is a feminist issue

mostlysignssomeportents:

Any health-care system that depends on employers or wages is going to privilege the people with the highest-paid jobs (men) and take away power from people who do the bulk of unwaged work (women).

The Affordable Care Act decoupled your ability to not perish of preventable disease or misadventure from your relationship with your employer, empowering you to leave a bad boss without risking death.

But because ACA required its users to pay cash into the system, it bound women to abusive men just as surely as it bound employees to abusive employers.

The human potential of a society must not be squandered by shackling good people to bad firms or bad husbands.

Single payer – the system overwhelming used in other developed countries, who spend less per capita and deliver better health outcomes than Americans suffer through – is the only just system.

https://boingboing.net/2017/12/11/unwaged-work-is-real-work.html

Yes.

And Universal Basic Income would be good, too :)