NBC: Alabama Whistleblower Fired and Sued After Protesting Conditions (UPDATE in LBN)

[Omaha Steve]

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UPDATE in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141070668





http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/in-plain-sight/alabama-whistleblower-fired-sued-after-protesting-conditions-n341296

BY SETH FREED WESSLER

A Selma, Alabama, factory worker who was fired, sued andnd slapped with a restraining order after leading a protest march is in court Wednesday to demand she be allowed to continue her fight for safer working conditions at the auto parts plant.

"I feel like I'm being punished for speaking up," Kimberly King, 50, told NBC on March 17th, the day after she was fired.

Lear Corporation, a leading global auto parts manufacturer, says King lied about workplace exposure to toxins and about a federal safety and health investigation in a letter she delivered earlier this month to Hyundai. But an investigation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) found workers were not adequately protected from exposure to chemicals. And Yale University medical researchers who tested workers' blood say their analysis shows a high likelihood those workers were made sick working at the plant.

Lear's Renosol plant in Selma, which employs over 80 people on an assembly line, uses chemicals called isocyanates to make the foam seats it manufactures for Hyundai, its sole customer. In July, NBC News published an investigation that included allegations by King and eleven other current and former workers that they'd been made sick while working in the Renosol plant.

FULL story at link.

[rhett o rick]

1. She should have been greatful to have had a job.

[Omaha Steve]

2. I posted about her before she got fired

Hyundai needs to say reinstate her!

[Omaha Steve]

3. In LBN Labor Department Charges Ala. Hyundai Supplier With Obstructing Investigation

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