Topic of the Week
National Breastfeeding Month and Your Rights at Work
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Blog of the Week
The New ‘Lavender Scare’ Is an Attack on the Working Class
A new wave of attacks on queer and trans rights is here. The Working People podcast asks veteran LGBTQ+ labor organizers how workers can fight back.
Thought for the Week
"We’re talking about basic protections like ensuring pregnant women have a stool or a water bottle so they can stay on the job, or that all nursing moms have the time and space they need to pump. We’ve been fighting for years to get these bills across the finish line. …With reproductive rights under attack — and with a formula crisis still putting stress on parents’ shoulders — the very last thing anyone should have to worry about is losing their job because they’re pregnant or nursing."
–Senator Patty Murray
List of the Week
from Pregnant@Work
Breastfeeding discrimination takes many forms, including:
- denying pumping break requests from workers who are in pain and leaking milk
- firing them just for asking
- refusing to provide privacy or safe conditions
- crude comments on their body
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