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Omaha Steve

(99,061 posts)
Sat May 19, 2012, 03:10 PM May 2012

Safeway to hero: you're suspended after he defended a pregnant women from being beaten



Take action here: http://www.change.org/petitions/give-safeway-employee-ryan-young-his-job-back-with-back-pay?utm_campaign=vClXFVMtpK&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert


Safeway suspended Ryan Young after he defended a pregnant women from being beaten -- ask them to reinstate him now.

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What would you do if you were in a grocery store, you turned into an aisle, and you saw a man beating his pregnant girlfriend? Would you run for help? How long would that take? Would it be too late by the time security arrived?

Ryan Young worked at the meat counter of a Safeway supermarket. Reports say that when Ryan saw a customer push and kick his pregnant girlfriend last month, Ryan stepped in to stop the beating.

According to the press, Ryan's actions earned him praise from his local police chief, but not from his employer. Instead of treating Ryan like a hero, Safeway claimed Ryan should have called security and suspended him without pay while it investigates the "altercation." Pending the results of that investigation, Ryan could be fired for good.

Doug Castro is a security guard who shops at the Safeway where Ryan works, and he believes Ryan did the right thing by intervening. That's why Doug started a petition on Change.org asking Safeway to lift Ryan’s suspension and give him backpay for the income he lost during his involuntary time away from work. Click here to sign Doug's petition.

Ryan says one reason he felt so compelled to intervene is that he's an expectant dad himself -- his wife is 5 months pregnant. "We're expecting a child," Ryan says. "I've been suspended for just about a month now without pay for doing something I feel was right, that police said was right."

Indeed, local Police Chief Ron Langford told reporters, "In my mind, in this case Ryan did the right thing."

The police have already turned over security footage of the incident to prosecutors so that the man who beat his girlfriend can be charged, yet Ryan has been suspended for almost a month with no income. Doug believes that if thousands of people sign his petition, Safeway will bow to public pressure and put Ryan back on the job.

Click here to sign Doug's petition demanding that Safeway bring back Ryan Young, an employee who was suspended after defending a pregnant woman.

Thanks for being a change-maker,

- Tim and the Change.org team


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Safeway to hero: you're suspended after he defended a pregnant women from being beaten (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2012 OP
Why the need for an address on the petition I wonder...sigh...n/t monmouth May 2012 #1
k&r Liberal_in_LA May 2012 #2
The corporate monster strikes again. UnrepentantLiberal May 2012 #3
He also is in a union I think. Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2012 #4
Good thing the GF-beater didn't have a gun. daaron May 2012 #5
WTF is wrong with people? Canuckistanian May 2012 #6
I used to work somewhere with a similar policy... Kalidurga May 2012 #7
 

daaron

(763 posts)
5. Good thing the GF-beater didn't have a gun.
Sat May 19, 2012, 04:28 PM
May 2012

You know... to defend himself and his pregnant girlfriend.

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
6. WTF is wrong with people?
Sat May 19, 2012, 04:48 PM
May 2012

Safeway corporate should have made this guy employee of the month.

Instead, they're getting bad PR for some petty rule that even security and the police disagree with.

And this has been going on for a month?

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
7. I used to work somewhere with a similar policy...
Sat May 19, 2012, 06:55 PM
May 2012

but, every policy has exceptions. It takes someone with common sense to know what they should be. I would say this is one of those obvious exceptions.

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