Dawn Gragg (Fr. Lft) Michelle Frodyma, Patti Mills, Jeri Kasper, Ana Enrique, out of a job because they are women though they have a contract, their district ignored it to keep the male workers.
“Not to suggest that the women in this room have not served this district and served them well as campus monitors, but when we have situations involving washrooms or locker rooms or other gender-specific issues, our legal counsel has told the administration and told the board that this is appropriate and legal,” Superintendent John Harper, Plainfield School District said in defense of its action to lay-off the women even if they contractually had more seniority.
Citing they needed male school monitors for “safety” reasons, the Plainfield School District laid-off the female monitors first violating the seniority clause of their contract.
Although many of them routinely inspected the boys bathroom as Pattie Mills said, “We have been instructed to go into the male bathrooms and search for kids. We have been told you go up to the bathroom, you ask if anyone is in there and if no one answers you have the right to go in and check for them. We have done that numerous times.”
According to blogger Fred Klonsky, “that’s why unions defend seniority.”
Especially for Women in Buffalo, New York 