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Demovictory9

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Fri May 25, 2018, 02:05 PM May 2018

Scotland horrified by female employee bound with duct tape [View all]

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She said her co-workers made fun of her for having a miscarriage, hurled sexist and racist language at her and others, and then, the final straw: They duct-taped her to a chair and gagged her. Now, per the New York Times, DeeAnn Fitzpatrick will get her day in court. The 49-year-old will next month seek a judgment against her former employer, a Scottish government fisheries agency, over what she says was a work environment rife with harassment, sexism, and bullying. What's causing the most shock waves: a picture of her (see it here) reportedly taken by two Marine Scotland co-workers in 2010 as a "warning." It shows her wrapped in duct tape and bound to a chair, with duct tape also covering her mouth. "I was taped to a chair by two of my colleagues and told, 'This is what happens when you speak out against the boys,'" she told a judge in 2017, the year she launched her case over the "threatening and misogynistic culture."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/world/europe/scotland-woman-bound-work.html


http://www.newser.com/story/259758/scottish-leader-horrified-at-photo-of-bound-female-worker.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
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