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Faculty Women Aren't Alone at UC
WAGE has received a copy of a letter written by a woman electrician at
UC Berkeley to the Civil Rights Division of the Attorney General's Office in
Washington. She describes the same patterns of discrimination in her
department as women faculty in the Medical School do in theirs: white males
hired, retained and promoted by their white male supervisors who manipulate
or evade affirmative action requirements in order to exclude minorities and
women.
The particular trick in the skilled trades is to use the union contract
provisions that exempt specially skilled employees from the seniority rules
that govern layoffs. the supervisors select inexperienced white males for
special assignments that include some particular element of training so that
when the work load fluctuates they can be retained instead of more senior
and experienced women and minorities.
Also similar to other UC women's experiences is the retaliation
tradeswomen have suffered after filing grievances; they report intimidation,
retaliatory lay-offs and ongoing hostility in the work environment.
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