Chipotle Mexican Grill was ordered to pay $550,000 to a former employee of its Dupont Circle store after a jury ruled that she had been fired for being pregnant, according to a report in the Washington Post. Doris Garcia Hernandez, who worked at the Chipotle on M Street Northwest, says her supervisor began restricting access to drinking water and forbidding routine breaks after she informed him that she was pregnant in November 2011. She was fired a few months later, after leaving work early to go to a prenatal doctor’s appointment. “This is a victory for working women,” said Christine Tschiderer, an attorney for the Washington Lawyers’ Committee who helped represent Hernandez. “It sends a clear message to employers that pregnancy is not incompatible with the workplace.” Chipotle does not plan to appeal the court’s decision. We have a link to the complete Post report at dclabor.org
For the latest local labor calendar listings, go to dclabor.org and click on Calendar. Here’s today's labor history: On this date in 1894, George Meany, founding president of the AFL-CIO, was born in the Bronx. Meany began his career in the labor movement as a plumber, rising to lead the New York State Federation of Labor, where he built a powerful political organization, passing one of the nation's first unemployment insurance laws and forging support for the reelection of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. Meany served as secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of Labor from 1940 to 1952, succeeded as president of the AFL, and then continued as the first president of the AFL-CIO following the historic merger in 1955 until retiring in 1979. Meany modernized and expanded the national AFL-CIO, making the organization an influential voice in the nation's political and legislative arena. Meany, a staunch supporter of civil and equal rights his entire career, put the federation's muscle behind the civil rights movement, insisting that the historic 1964 Civil Rights Act call for an end to both workplace and community discrimination. Today’s labor quote is by George Meany "One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby people choose and remove their rulers, there is no method of securing human rights against the state. No democracy without human rights, no human rights without democracy, and no trade union rights without either."
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