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Sexual Harassment Practical Strategies: How Do I Deal with Sexual Harassment?

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Blog of the Week

The Long Struggle Against Giving Up

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), the union organizing the Amazon warehouse, lost the vote by more than a 2 – 1 margin. After the extreme publicity of the campaign over the past couple of months, such a definitive loss was crushing.

Thought for the Week

"The ADA is based on a basic presumption that people with disabilities want to work and are capable of working, want to be members of their communities and are capable of being members of their communities and that exclusion and segregation cannot be tolerated. Accommodating a person with a disability is no longer a matter of charity but instead a basic issue of civil rights."

–Arlene Mayerson | Chronicling the history of the ADA for the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

List of the Week

from Bureau of Labor Statistics

• Between March and August 2020 a million workers with disabilities lost their jobs, and by December, unemployment among this cohort climbed to 12.3%—which is about twice the national average.
• One in four U.S. adults (61 million) has some type of disability.

Top Five News Headlines

1. Boeing Says It Fired 65 Workers for Hateful Words or Actions
2. The Fear Black Employees Carry
3. Miscarriages: The Costly Workplace Taboo
4. Roads to Recovery: How the pandemic is accelerating workforce training
5. Nearly 70 million Americans have criminal records. We must give them a second chance