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If you are not in Microsoft Notepad, copy the newsletter to an open incident of it to change the line length. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Issue 16, Number 3 August, 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chrysler, UAW face slew of complaints in the past 18 months More Sexual Harassment Complaints in Auto Industry Free Representation in EEO Proceedings Naval Handbook bans Dissenting Voices Important Supreme Court Ruling Employees Sometimes Die After Being Sexually Harassed Internet Security Unauthorized Remote Access Device Sexual Harassment in the Media Alternate TV News Finding a Remote Device On Your Computer Links and Events ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Chrysler, UAW face slew of complaints in the past 18 months ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BY TIM HIGGINS • FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER • July 6, 2008 TOLEDO -- Melody Williams, after working an overtime shift, was called to her boss' office, where she found him lying on a desk. "You want to get paid?" she testified that supervisor Torrence Frazier asked her. He pawed at her; pressed his body against hers. "We can just go next door, get this over with," he told her. And that's how it went -- giving in to his demands, against her will -- for several months, she testified. Chrysler's Toledo North Assembly Plant was a "living hell" that drove Williams, one of several workers to file complaints about the plant, to a psychiatric unit and near bankruptcy, her lawyer alleges. Chrysler denied wrongdoing in court records, but the U.S. EEOC believed Williams' claims of sexual harassment. Chrysler "has failed in its obligations under federal law to maintain a work environment free of unlawful harassment," says an EEOC report obtained by the Free Press. Williams' accusations are part of what workplace experts and investigators term an extraordinarily high number of sexual harassment and discrimination allegations against Chrysler and the UAW at the Toledo complex. The high volume of charges has prompted the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to launch a broad investigation into the possibility of an abusive environment at the Jeep complex, the Free Press has learned. In the past four years, nine federal lawsuits have been filed in Toledo against Chrysler regarding sexual harassment at the Jeep plant. Seventy-three charges of civil rights violations have been filed with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, with more than 40 coming within the past 18 months, records show. The 45 civil rights complaints in the last 18 months is more than five times the number of charges leveled against General Motors Corp.'s comparably sized operations in and around Toledo. Some of the Jeep plant cases highlight Chrysler's requirement that job applicants waive the full amount of time they have under the law to file a legal claim, a provision allowed by the courts that one Michigan judge has called "unconscionable." Two named in many lawsuits The lawsuits and claims together portray an assembly plant where certain supervisors and union leaders used their power to demand sex from female workers in exchange for letting the women keep their jobs or favorable assignments. Workers say UAW and company officials turned a blind eye -- and a federal judge and investigators have affirmed that officials failed to protect employees. In court records, the automaker and union local have denied wrongdoing. Officials from UAW Local 12, which represents workers at the plant, did not respond to questions for this report, and the local's Toledo lawyer declined to comment. Mike Palese, a Chrysler spokesman, said the automaker is unable to talk about individual claims because of pending legal actions. "Chrysler has a zero-tolerance policy for harassment of any kind in any of its facilities and offices around the world," Palese said. "We communicate this policy to all employees. We train our employees and our supervisors. All allegations of harassment are fully investigated, and violations of the policy are punishable up to and including termination. This is a very strong policy." Auto plants have dealt with sexual harassment before, but after extensive training that has been common in U.S. factories, it is rare to see so many cases at one site, experts say. "That's not only excessive, that's dramatic," said Gerald Meyers, former chairman of American Motors, which sold Jeep-brand vehicles until the company was acquired by Chrysler. "Something is wrong" at the Toledo plant. Several of the lawsuits name a small group of union and company officials, most prominently: union steward Richard Lott and Frazier, the supervisor named in Williams' complaint. Court records portray them as friends who are accused in some complaints of helping each other terrorize women at the plant. Both men remain at the Chrysler Jeep operations. Lott's lawyer declined to comment for this report, and Lott did not respond to an interview request. Chrysler declined to make Frazier available to comment for this report. Lott is the primary antagonist in lawsuits by worker Mee Sanders, who claimed a "lack of institutional control" at the Jeep plant. "Chrysler employees, supervisors and management have run amok in an environment that breeds sexual predators," she alleged. Sanders has seen some early success in litigation against the UAW, with a judge in May upholding a ruling against the union for discrimination and breach of its duty of fair representation. Another lawsuit by Sanders against the company is scheduled for a jury trial in November, though some of her allegations have been dismissed in part because of Chrysler's preemployment waiver requiring that claims be filed within six months. Judge: Hostile work environment U.S. District Judge David Katz ruled against the union, saying Sanders' case involved "harassment by a coworker and fellow union member without adequate protection (and even with support) from supervisors and union officials who threatened, manipulated job placements and displayed a reluctance to help, resulting in a hostile work environment." The judge noted that neither the union nor Lott "really contest that Lott requested sexual favors in exchange for influencing her job placement." Four of the nine lawsuits were settled within the past two years; two were dismissed. Another suit was dismissed last month, but the worker last week filed notice of plans to appeal. Williams' lawsuit was one of those settled. In August, the automaker paid her a six-figure settlement, according to people familiar with the deal. It allowed her to get a new Mercedes and begin a new life near Phoenix. The state commission has seen a spike in complaints about all types of harassment and discrimination at the plant. In the past 18 months, 45 charges involving a variety of civil rights issues, such as sexual harassment and race discrimination, have been filed with the commission against the plant, which employs about 4,000. Ten charges also have been brought against UAW Local 12. While investigations are pending into most of the 45 accusations, the agency has found reason to believe the charges -- a finding known as probable cause -- in five cases. The agency negotiated a deal in a sixth case before it reached a determination. Three of the charges against the UAW have been found to have probable cause. Of the other 28 cases filed prior to the past 18 months, the majority were found to lack probable cause, according to investigators, a common ruling by the commission. John Challenger, a human resources expert with Challenger, Gray & Christmas in Chicago, said the number of claims at the Jeep plant could be a sign of a pervasive culture of sexual harassment. But even if the claims are false, he said it's a sign of a corrosive environment. "There's a very antagonistic culture," he said. Cutbacks cited as an explanation Palese, the Chrysler spokesman, said the plant has undergone some recent changes, such as the elimination of a third shift in February, that "may or may not" have created some disgruntled employees. Some of the charges filed at the civil rights commission read like a plea for help. "I keep complaining of sexual harassment and" the "company refuses to help me," Yolanda Coleman, a Jeep worker, told the Ohio commission in a complaint filed in August. The Free Press reviewed records in several cases: • In a finding in March supporting a sexual harassment charge brought by Jeep worker Casaundra Fletcher, an Ohio Civil Rights Commission investigator noted: "Witnesses indicate that employees of" Chrysler "are continually subjected to a sexually charged environment. This environment not only creates a hostile work environment for female employees but male employees as well." • A lawsuit was settled in May 2007 involving Kelly Alexander, a worker who said she was disciplined by Frazier after rejecting months of his sexual advances. When she complained to union leaders and company management, Frazier became enraged, profanely vowing "to take care of you," Alexander said in court records. • A May 2004 lawsuit by Janice Kasprzak that claimed Chrysler failed to act on complaints of sexual harassment was settled in the spring of 2006. She said Ted Stelmaszak, a team assistant, sexually harassed her, including asking her out several times, calling her home even after being told not to, touching her buttocks, and telling her that he screamed her name while masturbating. Chrysler argued that it investigated her claims promptly. U.S. District Judge James Carr refused to dismiss claims of sexual harassment. He did dismiss claims of retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. "The conduct Kasprzak alleges goes beyond simple teasing, offhand comments and isolated incidents. She has presented evidence that Stelmaszak repeatedly engaged in unwelcome sexually suggestive conduct," the judge wrote. • The lawsuit settled last fall involving Williams said that Frazier, then an area manager at Toledo North, told her to get an abortion and then demoted her to a less desirable job after she refused and told people he was the father of the baby. (She eventually had a miscarriage.) She had been in a consensual relationship with Frazier, records say, but it ended after he told her to get an abortion. After that, Frazier is accused of demanding sex in exchange for payment for overtime worked. The automaker said her claims against the company were not supported by evidence, noting overtime calculations are controlled by computers, not supervisors. The company also attacked her credibility and character, noting her violent marriage, attempted suicide and troubled teenage daughter. Williams, Chrysler lawyers argued, "is a troubled individual whose many problems have nothing to do with Mr. Frazier." The EEOC believed her accusations of sexual harassment and retaliation. "The evidence obtained during the investigation reveals that" Williams "was subjected to unlawful sexual harassment and retaliated against in violation of Title VII. The evidence further reveals that Mr. Frazier has also subjected other women to unwelcome advances, which created a hostile work environment." People familiar with Williams' case say she received the six-figure settlement. But the other lawsuits, including one filed by Valerie Jaques that was settled while she was appealing a judge's decision to dismiss the suit, were settled for much less. Palese, the Chrysler spokesman, said settlements such as Williams' are confidential. "Settlement is not an admission of liability by anybody," Palese said. "Often the parties will settle in order to avoid the future costs of litigation." http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080706/BUSINESS01/807060515/1118/PRINT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ More Sexual Harassment Complaints in Auto Industry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MADALYN RUGGIERO/Associated Press The Toledo North Assembly Plant is the not the first auto factory to see sexual harassment complaints. The volume of charges prompted an investigation by Ohio's Civil Rights Commission into the possibility of an abusive environment at the Toledo Jeep complex, the Free Press has learned. Harassment cases • In 1998, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. paid $34 million to settle a sexual-harassment lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of about 500 women at the automaker's Normal, Ill., assembly plant. • In 1998, Ford Motor Co. settled a $7.5-million lawsuit brought by the EEOC involving two Chicago plants where female workers said they were subjected to verbal and physical harassment and retaliation for reporting incidents. In the wake of this, Ford had said it spent more than $40 million on sexual harassment training. • In 1999, Linda Gilbert, represented by lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, won a $21-million sexual harassment lawsuit against Chrysler Corp. for trouble she said she faced at Detroit's Jefferson North Assembly Plant. Chrysler appealed and in 2004 the Michigan Supreme Court struck down the award. A new trial was ordered. Gilbert died a few months later. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Free Representation in EEO Proceedings ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EEOC regulations state that you can ask for an attorney to represent you in any EEO proceeding, if you have no funds (dirt poor). Also, in federal court, IF you can prove you have no money (dirt poor), you can proceed in a "pro forma pauperus" (dirt poor) status and also ask for free legal representation, IF your civil suit involved discrimination matters covered by one of the several civil rights acts. Question: Has anyone out there ever applied for the free representation and had it approved??? Inquiring minds would like to know. John Jay JJay943(bleep)aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Naval Handbook bans Dissenting Voices ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A friend of mine gave me a copy of the handbook being passed out in the Dept. of Navy, describing in exact detail how the newly implemented National Security Personnel System will work. It is truly an EVIL system. A virtual clone of a system I used to work under, long time ago, called the Navy-China Lake Personnel Demonstration System. The NSPS is worse, MUCH worse. It is designed with one thing FOREMOST and PRIMARY: Get rid of ALL dissenting voices. It has a STRONG emphasis on "TEAM WORK", which is a buzz word for eliminating anyone who says NO to managers. All of the following categories of employees will become extinct, within three years after NSPS is fully implemented: Whistle blowers, EEO complainants, those who file Prohibited Personnel Practice (PPP) complaints (MSPB), and anyone who dares to say NO to management. Result: In two to three years, the govy will be loaded with 100 percent TOADIES. All non toadies will be gone!!! Is there a precedent for the foregoing (i.e. turning the govy into a work force of TOTAL TOADIES???) Yes indeed, there is: The Soviet Union, from 1927to 1989, and Germany, from 1934 to 1945. Both countries eliminated or exterminated ALL dissenters. Nothing left but TOTAL TOADIES. Result: Go read your history books. The results are damned well known!!! JOHN JAY Voice of Truth Oxnard, CA JJay943(bleep)aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Important Supreme Court Ruling ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This term: The Court held that anti-discrimination statutes prohibit retaliation against employees who complain of discrimination. - Gomez-Perez v. Potter. Myrna Gomez-Perez is a postal worker who faced retaliation after she complained that the refusal to grant her a transfer was based on age discrimination. The Supreme Court held, 6-3, that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act prohibits retaliation against federal employees. - CBOCS v. Humphries. Hedrick Humphries, an African-American, was an associate manager at a Cracker Barrel restaurant. His new supervisor began making racially derogatory remarks, and he and other supervisors disciplined black employees in a manner that Humphries believed to be discriminatory. Shortly after Humphries complained about those actions, he was fired. The Supreme Court held, 7-2, that Section 1981, a broadly-worded statute that was enacted shortly after the Civil War to help give the newly emancipated slaves civil and economic rights, includes a cause of action for retaliation for those who complain about the loss of those rights. - In both of these cases, the issues were clear-cut and there was binding prior precedent including the Court's 2005 decision in Jackson. http://action.nwlc.org/site/R?i=0UtdKOX5mvrrjSEQDf8zPQ. The Court issued opinions that dealt with evidence and administrative procedures in employment discrimination that favored employees. From: "National Women's Law Center" http://action.nwlc.org/site/R?i=s9LglURl0afA13g7jUMQWg.. This begs the question whether it has made the handbook discussed in John Jay’s submission unconstitutional, which it should be. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Employees Sometimes Die After Being Sexually Harassed ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are hundreds of federal managers and supervisors who should be in jail, for crimes against their employees, harassment, bullying, and so on. However, as things stand, according to the legislation passed by YOUR Congress, NO supervisor or manager can be put in jail for anything done against their employees, including assault and or murder. Sad but true. Go file a complaint with the nearest FBI office next time you see a crime committed (by a manager or supervisor) against you or someone you know and watch what they do. They will look at you like you are crazy, then forward your complaint to the agency IG, and that will be the end of that. They (the agency) will come after YOU for daring to talk to the FBI. Been there and done that, in one of the cases discussed below. By the way, here is what I mean by murder (or homicide if you prefer). In the case of a female employee of the Navy base where I used to work, named Julie Butz, a malicious supervisor sexually harassed her for several months. Julie filed an EEO complaint and 6 months later she died of a heart attack. The stress she received from management, after filing the JUSTIFIED EEO complaint, got to her. STRESS is a killer, and managers and supervisors are well aware of the fact. IF they kill you with stress, that means one thing to them and ONLY one thing; they got rid of another complainant. The same thing that happened to Julie Butzat the Navy base out here happened to another female employee who used to work at Kirtland AFB in New Mexico. Maxine Trujillo, an over weight lady in poor health filed a request for reasonable accommodations (duet o a serious handicap), a workers comp claim, and several EEO complaints. Less than a year later Maxine was out of work and dead shortly thereafter (after being stressed to the max and fired) by the Air Force "killers". So, when I say it is possible for federal managers and supervisors to kill you (using stress as the weapon of choice) I meant exactly that. And the "killers" who "offed" Maxine and Julie were NEVER punished in any way shape or form. The evildoer who "offed" Julie Butz got a promotion and a nice big project to keep him gainfully employed. He was also given special protection during the 1999 RIF. Julie died in 1998, a year prior to the RIF. JOHN JAY Voice of Truth JJay943(bleep)aol.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Internet Security ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Web sites for internet/personal security: Joint effort between the technology industry and the government www.onguardonline.gov Security awareness for home users www.staysafeonline.org ID theft information www.ftc.gov/idtheft Spyware removal information www.unwantedlinks.com From Geico Direct Spring 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unauthorized Remote Access Device ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have had continuous problems with my computer, it seemed to me that someone else was running it rather than me. I have tried every anti-virus program and none of them were any good. Recently I downloaded a new firewall, and recently when I brought my system up, I got a pop-up window which said "CA Personal Firewall Security Alert A new network adapter has been detected RAS Async Adapter (67.1.183.134) Note: placing a network into the safe zone allows others to access your shared personal files and printers. What zone would you like to add the network to? safe Restricted" I had earlier had a problem with the LAN network being enabled, so I check that fairly often, also the task manager networks tab, and no other networks have been showing up on any of them. I have absolutely not given anyone permission to put any kind of a network adapter on my computer. I just checked again, the only network which is enabled on my computer is the dialup, the LAN network is not enabled. the task manager networking tab only shows the dialup as being connected. This is apparently some hidden network. From searching on the internet, it appears that this is a freeware download. I found a discussion of it at http://forums.techguy.org/t373432.html. janetleih(bleep)washrag.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sexual Harassment in the Media ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See this, http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3663 where a headline proclaims “half of women are harassed.” So, what else is new? anne(bleep)willapabay.org There was a comment made on a segment on the news recently about rape and women in the military that a woman in the military is more likely to be raped than to be killed by an enemy combatant. On May 6, KELO evening news carried a story about Dave Eliason the manager of Anabelle’s and Olivia’s, two adult Bookstores in Sioux Falls, who was charged with sexual harassment and rape by two former employees. On May 9, KELO carried a story on their 10:00 news about workplace bullying. Susan was bullied for years, and bullying destroyed her reputation. There were a group of people who cooperated with the bullies. The story said that 40% of employees have been bullied on the job. They say that bullying is four times as common as sexual harassment and it is often motivated by jealousy, trying to get a person to leave their job. They think that bullying will become as important as sexual harassment was a decade ago. NOW on PBS had a story about sexual harassment in the military on May 23, 2008. They said that a third of women in the military are harassed. The DOD has created a unit to deal with sexual assault and an 800 number to report it. Very few perpetrators are charged and convicted of it. It leads to post traumatic stress. Women in the military are more likely to get PTS from sexual assault than from combat. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Alternate TV News ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sick of the pap and crap on the network news? Try Out There TV News. Go to http://www.outtheretv.com to find the station near you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Finding a Remote Device On Your Computer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you power your computer down, if you are getting a message that the system is closing network connections, that is a warning that there may be a remote connection on your computer. First, bring up the Windows Task Manager by hitting CTL/ALT/DEL all at the same time ONE TIME ONLY. If you do this twice in a row, your computer will restart. If it does not come up after a minute or two, hit them again. Click on the "owner" tab. Unless you are on a network with other computers and you know you are, this should have no less and no more than one entry. If you have more than one entry, then you are on some kind of a network, and it is probably using a remote access device. If you have none, then your system has been altered to cloak that fact, and you are probably on a network. If this all seems in order, go to START\CONTROL PANAL\network\ and click on Internet Connections and then on Network Connections. This should show your internet connection and a LAN. Click on the LAN. This should show that it is disabled unless you have a broadband connection. If it is disabled, then that is OK. I went through a period when every time I checked, it was enabled. I would always disable it, and the next time I checked, it was enabled again. Click on START\All Programs\Accessories\Command Prompt and hit enter. After the > type in "sc query" without the quote marks and hit enter. When this comes up, scan through it for something called "RASMAN". This is a remote access synchronizer manager. If you have this on your computer and it is running, then there is someone who has a network on your computer and can pretty much do anything on it that you can do, and they can do it while you are using the computer. You can "take a picture" of this by holding down on the CTL key and hitting the "prt scr/sysrq" key at the top of your keyboard. This copies the whole screen to your clipboard. Open Paintbrush and hold down on the CTL key and hit "V". The screen should appear in paintbrush. You can print this, I prefer to select just the area I want to print and copy it to the clipboard and insert it into another incidence of Paintbrush. Before you print it you can "invert colors" which will print black on a white background which saves a lot of ink. My advice is not to change anything in sc query without expert advice which I am not competent to give you. When you first start the computer up, the instant you see the desktop, open the task manager as instructed before. Select the processes tab and watch as different systems are initialized. Look for "userinit.exe". If you see it, you can select it and then click on "end task." This must be done immediately and quickly, as this item will disappear. Since this is executing after you, supposedly the only user, are already initialized, it is always for some other user. More in the next issue. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Links and Events ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We are pleased to invite you to the Third Global Congress of Women in Politics and Governance which will be held on October 19-22, 2008 at the Dusit Hotel, Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines. The theme of the congress is “Gender and Climate Change”. http://www.capwip.org/ 2008globalcongress.capwip(bleep)gmail.com MomsAgainstAbuse-MAA(bleep)yahoogroups.com Submitted by Charms203(bleep)aol.com http://www.aboutequalopportunities.co.uk/sexual-harassment.html has information about sexual harassment in the UK. 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