Word: sickingly
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...further information about sick-building syndrome, contact the EPA's Indoor Air Quality Information Clearing House at 800-438-4318, or visit the agency's website, with links to other indoor-air-quality information websites, at www.epa.gov/iaq
Though some supervisors at the center are said to be sick themselves, employees say these managers have participated in the cover-up. One employee says that her supervisor helped her rewrite her resignation letter, allegedly instructing her to say she "loved the company and was leaving because I wanted to retire," rather than state the real reason, which was her health. That way, she would be able to come back to work if she wanted to. The airline says it knows nothing of this...
...appears to be a key factor in a widespread reluctance among staff members to speak openly about the problem. Many of the center's employees are working mothers afraid of being stranded, like Polansky, without company medical insurance. A 56-year-old male employee, who says he has been sick since he went to work for Southwest in 1992, consulted with his union representative and decided not to speak to TIME on the record; he was afraid going public would get him fired...
Except through the lawsuits that have been filed, most of the sick remain silent; $20 an hour is hard to find in San Antonio, not to mention profit sharing. "We went over the billion-dollar mark [in revenues] in June of this year," says a long-term employee who has the full array of symptoms, including memory loss and "a thing on my leg." It's "bigger than a silver dollar now," she says. "I just wish they knew how many people in this building are sick...
...building. "They said that's the only alternative we've got," says Renee Cicero, local representative for the Air Transport Union. Cicero claims her hands have been tied because no one is filing formal complaints. Then the question will be what to do with the people who are still sick and out of work. "That," says Cicero, "will be another mess...