The story of the nation's first sexual harassment class action lawsuit launched with the help of attorney Bill. Based on true events that took place in 1988, it was the first successful sexual harassment lawsuit in U.S. history.
A mother of two went to work at a mine and was sexually harassed and abused by male workers all day. She took the mining company to court and worked hard for her dignity under the enormous pressure of her family, workplace and social environment. Based on the true story of the first woman in US history to successfully win a sexual harassment case.
Josie was raped by her husband and returned to Minnesota with her two children to join her parents. Her father has always been ashamed of his daughter, because her daughter gave birth to a child when she was 16 years old, and there are rumors that her daughter has a bad reputation.
Josie finds a job shampooing her hair and meets an old friend who suggests that the heroine go to work in the mines for six times the salary of shampooing her hair.
On her first day at the mine, she met her high school boyfriend.
The men in the mine made lewd jokes about the female miners, and the female miners always swallowed it. She witnessed workplace sexual harassment .
Josie and her female colleague were cleaning the workplace together. The male colleague came to borrow cigarettes from them, but put his hand directly in the female colleague's breast pocket.
The foreman took advantage of her position to sexually harass Josie recklessly. In the dressing room, she found that other female colleagues had been sexually harassed. During work, it became common for male colleagues to tell pornographic jokes.
The female colleagues swallowed hard, and the union leaders turned a blind eye. All this has resulted in more and more serious sexual harassment in the mining area.
Josie, became the first woman to stand up against sexual harassment. Of course, she became the target of public criticism. She obviously resisted sexual harassment, but was called a "bitch" by her male colleague's wife. She encouraged female colleagues to stand up against sexual harassment, but she was regarded as an outlier.
The silence of the female miners was exchanged for the intensification of the male miners. On this day, after a female miner entered the simple toilet, the male miner pushed the toilet down, and the dirty things in the toilet drenched the female miner.
Josie protested to the foreman, who perfunctory. Later, he went to the head office to negotiate with the board of directors. Unexpectedly, the boss fired Josie.
The heroine, who was on the verge of desperation, hired a lawyer to file a lawsuit against the iron ore company, vowing to seek justice for the female miners who had been sexually harassed in the mine.
Josie's mother tipped her money and said, "I know I'm not the best mom, but here I am!"
When Josie explained to the workers in the auditorium why she was against the company, she said, "I don't want this mine to close, I just want a job, like everyone else, to get paid every week to raise my two Boy. I need this job."
Under pressure, her father stood up to support his daughter. "Father's love is like a mountain", but he is usually silent.
During the trial, Mine's lawyer wanted to start with her personal emotions, trying to prove that Josie seduced her teacher in high school. The result brought back Josie's painful memories: at the age of 16, when she was in a relationship with her then boyfriend, she was discovered by the teacher and stayed in school to talk. The teacher let the little boy go first, her teacher sexually assaulted her, so she became pregnant with the teacher's child, but in order to protect the child, she has not disclosed the child's life experience over the years, so that people think that her son is the one who fucks A wild species born from a relationship between a man and a woman.
When her father heard this, all his internal organs were burned, and he rushed to beat the teacher.
Reconciliation with son. After being raped, she got pregnant unexpectedly. She should have had an abortion, but she really felt life like a butterfly. It was a part of her body that deserved to be cherished and protected, so she gave birth to him.
In court, the lawyer pressed his high school boyfriend to admit that he saw the teacher rape the heroine.
"On the ice hockey rink, when faced with difficulties, someone fights hard and spills blood on the ice rink, this is called red ice; and someone is scared out of shit, this is called yellow ice. Are you a red ice or a Yellow ice? red or yellow?"
The aura was so strong that he finally admitted that he was a witness.
The judge proposed that three plaintiffs would be required to sue the mine, and those female miners, with many concerns, filed a lawsuit with the mine. If the lawsuit was lost, they would have no job. At this time, the good friend mentioned at the beginning was seriously ill and appeared in court in a wheelchair.
Inspired by her spirit, more and more people stood up silently.
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