Tag: USA: Sexual abuse

NOVANEWS By Joyce Chediac No Harveys here: Sexual harassment is a working class issue. This article is part 2 of a series on workers fighting sexual harassment in the hotels, homes and growing fields. The #MeToo campaign has forced Harvey Weinstein and some other sexual predators out of the workplace. But many of these same abusers employ domestic workers at home. How can workers in private home settings protect themselves? “Linda” is woman is her early 50s who cared for a 67-year-old male client in New Mexico. This client has been inappropriately touching her breasts and lower back and refuses to stop. When she tried to tell her employer — a private agency that contracts out domestic worker services — her manager at the agency began sexually harassing her as well. Her situation i...