Word: libbey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people that the Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. employs to make glass in Toledo, only 200 are members of the "minority" group that makes up more than half the city's population. Just like their fellow workers, they want overtime pay and a crack at the tough jobs that lead to advancement. But because they are women, a state law bars them from working more than nine hours a day or six days a week and from regularly lifting more than 25 lbs. The women also charge that company policy makes them the last hired and first fired. Taking their...
...Conciliation. The Libbey-Owens-Ford case was started by Mrs. Nancy Raitz, 35, a former $2.50-an-hour assembler. Last year she and 32 other female employees complained to the EEOC. The company argued that it was merely obeying the state law. When the commission's conciliation attempts failed, it recommended that the Justice Department bring a full-scale court test...