Threemile puts pregnant woman at risk. Please help.

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/threemile101706

Threemile puts pregnant woman at risk. Please help.

This will make you angry. Threemile Canyon Farms in eastern
Oregon is back to its shameful behavior of discrimination
against women.

Threemile's latest intimidation of women is to avoid providing
them with a separate changing area--a necessity as workers must
wear coveralls to protect them from feces and urine. Laura Garay
repeatedly spoke out on this issue and won. Now the company is
making her pay for protecting her rights and the rights of other
women.

A couple of weeks ago, Laura found out she was pregnant. One of
Laura's jobs was to bathe each cow's udder with chemicals?which
brings her face directly into the chemicals' fumes. As no masks
or protective gear are provided, it made her dizzy and worsened
her morning sickness. Her job also required Laura to go up and
down stairs. In order to protect her unborn child, Laura
requested to be transferred to one of numerous other jobs at the
dairy. Management said, if she could not do her job she would be
fired.

A week ago, Laura slipped on cow manure and fell hard on her
tail bone. She was sent to a company doctor who told her to take
a day off and cleared her for reassignment for five days to a
different job. On the sixth day, despite Laura telling
management she was in a lot of pain because of the fall, they
sent her back to her old job. When the pain became too much to
bear and Laura felt she was going to faint, she demanded to be
allowed to go to the hospital.

At the hospital, Laura discovered the company doctor
misdiagnosed her. She likely had a fracture in her back and was
told to avoid any physical activity. The doctor told Laura she
couldn't understand how the company physician sent her back to
work so quickly.

Laura is now at home recovering, waiting to see when the doctor
at the hospital will let her return to work. She told us, "I'm
really afraid that because of this fall and the hard work that
they assign to me that I'll have some problem with my baby. I'm
also worried that they're going to fire me because I'm pregnant
or retaliate against me because I fell."

Please help Laura and all the Threemile employees by writing a
letter to McDonalds and ask the giant restaurant to use its
influence to stop the problems at Threemile. McDonalds gets
products from at least three different companies that buy milk
and potatoes from Threemile. McDonalds? code of conduct says,
"We hold our suppliers responsible for ensuring adherence to our
standards in their facilities and in subcontractor facilities
that produce products for us...We will not do business with
suppliers who fail to uphold our standards, in action as well as
words." Yet McDonalds has repeatedly refused to take action.

Please take action to help Laura and the Threemile workers!Go
to: http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/threemile101706/

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