Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Court's 9-0 decision in UAW v. Johnson Controls killed a new breed of sex discrimination based on the age-old idea that women's special responsibility to future generations justifies limiting their employment opportunities. So-called "fetal protection policies" might have applied in more than two million jobs had they remained legal, according to the Department of Labor...
Still, the efforts to protect the rights of the fetus have far-reaching implications, and not just for pregnant women. The UAW, et al. v. Johnson Controls case, now facing the Supreme Court, provides a dramatic example. In 1982 Johnson Controls, a Milwaukee-based company that is one of the nation's largest car-battery manufacturers, decided to forbid its fertile women employees to hold jobs that would expose them to lead levels potentially damaging to a fetus. High doses of lead -- higher than any permitted by law in the workplace -- have been linked to miscarriages and fetal death. Even...