Some workplaces not supportive of breast-cancer survivors: report
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Linda Ockwell-Jenner was juggling a full-time job at a Kitchener shoe store and part time gigs as a cleaner and a vaccum saleswoman when she was hit with the diagnosis.
She had breast cancer.
The divorced mother of four had to take five weeks off for a lumpectomy and radiation treatment in Toronto. Already struggling to support her family, she went back to work at the shoe store as soon as she could.
But she faced numerous challenges, including reduced work hours, lack of health benefits, and what she called an absence of compassion.
“My experience of going back to work was really horrible,” said Ockwell-Jenner. “It was as if the people who had worked with me were scared that I was a different person.”
According to a report published this month in European Journal of Cancer Care , Ockwell-Jenner is one of many women to experience problems working after breast cancer treatment.
The study compiled the employment experiences of 1,181 women in Canada, the U.S., and three other countries over the last 20 years to examine how women are treated following breast cancer treatment.
Source: Toronto Star
Why Romney's Waffle On Ohio's Anti-Union Law Mattered
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Morning before he uttered those words.
Romney’s SB 5 flip-flop could come back to hurt him. Here’s why:
This is Ohio, for Pete’s sake
Hard to think of a state where it would be more disadvantageous to simultaneously enrage one’s base and then very publicly tie one’s self to an issue independent voters are against (and polls have showed indies breaking away from SB 5, hard).
Romney is in a very, very good position in the state were he to be the GOP’s nominee. Citing their fresh data from mid-October, Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling even went as far to say that if the general election were tomorrow, Romney would take the state . Quinnipiac released a poll Wednesday before Romney walked back his non-position on SB 5 that showed him within striking distance in Ohio . But now, what will the next round of polling say?
SB 5 is the only ballgame in Ohio right now
In an interview with TPM, Ohio Democratic Party Communications Director Seth Bringman pointed to the fact that SB 5 has become a flashpoint in the state’s politics. Repeatedly calling it the “quintessential” issue in the state, he maintained that what pols do now is going to deeply effect what happens in the state in the general election. “I think he’s [Romney] missing the point on how much this is going to matter in 2012,” Bringman said. “For someone who wants to win the state a year for now, to show such disregard for the most important issue facing Ohio right now is insulting.”
Source: TPM
