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  Healing to Action

  health care workers: labor unions; state level workplace violence standards and regulations

  Hennepin County, Minnesota

  Hernández, Georgina; activist role in California’s campaign for janitorial workers; border-crossing experience; and California’s anti-wage theft bill; as domestic violence victim; early life of poverty and abuse; filing sexual harassment lawsuit against employer; garment factory work and supervisor’s sexual abuse; letter to her attacker; and MCTF investigator Vicky Márquez; and promotora programs; reporting abuse; sexual harassment and rape by supervisor; suicide attempt and recovery; unplanned pregnancy

  Hill, Anita: discrediting of; workplace sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas

  Hirschfeld, Stephen

  “Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work” (2012 report of the National Domestic Workers Alliance)

  Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette

  Household Technicians of America

  household workers. See domestic workers

  Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (Nadasen)

  Huerta, David

  Huerta, Dolores

  Hughes, Katherine

  Human Rights Watch

  Huntington, Bill

  Illinois Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights

  Illinois Human Rights Act

  Illinois State University

  immigrants: barriers to reporting crimes (less likely to report); challenges of finding jobs; El Salvador; Georgina’s Hernández’s border-crossing experience; MCTF’s immigration policy assistance; Mexico; night-shift janitorial workers; Philippines; remittances; Southern Poverty Law Center’s “bandana project”; Trump administration agenda; undocumented

  Industrial Workers of the World

  Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California

  Interfaith Worker Justice

  International Human Rights Day

  isolation, worker’s: domestic workers and caregivers; farmworkers; janitors and night-shift cleaners

  Jamaica

  janitors and night-shift cleaners; companies’ responses to demands for improved working conditions; companies’ settlement agreements; Erika Morales’s story; filing official complaints and sexual harassment lawsuits; Georgina Hernández’s story; isolation of; Latino immigrant female workforce; Leticia Zúñiga’s sexual harassment criminal case/civil case; María Bojóquez lawsuits against ABM Industries; MCTF’s undercover inspections and support for; promotora programs; “Rape on the Night Shift” (documentary); SEIU United Workers West; SEIU’s Justice for Janitors campaign; sexual harassment prevention efforts; subcontracting system; unions’ efforts to organize workers and improve conditions; wage theft

  Jim Crow discrimination

  Journal of Social Issues

  Julien, Allison

  Justice for Janitors campaign

  Justice Management Institute

  Kings County District Attorney’s Office (California)

  Kings County Sheriff’s Department (California)

  Knights of Labor

  KQED-FM

  La Vite, Christine

  labor unions and labor movement; AFL-CIO’s 1992 resolution condemning sexual harassment; California legislation and janitorial companies; California’s anti-wage theft legislation; collaboration on promotora program; contract negotiations with companies; domestic workers; and federal minimum wage laws; health care workers; history of attention to workplace sexual harassment; janitorial workers; Justice for Janitors campaign; membership surveys on sexual harassment issue; New Deal legislation; SEIU; SEIU United Workers West; sexual harassment training and prevention; sexual harassment within; street protests; and subcontractors; tension of representing both accuser and accused; whitemale dominated unions’ failure to prioritize female workers’ issues; and workplace violence standards

  Ladino, Maricruz

  Laguna, Veronica

  Latino Union (Chicago)

  law enforcement: DOJ investigation of Baltimore Police Department’s treatment of sexual assault victims; female police officers and reluctance to reporting harassment; Latina immigrants’ fears of reporting sexual assault and seeking assistance of; misclassification of sexual assault cases. See also reporting sexual harassment and assault in the workplace

  The Lecherous Professor: Sexual Harassment on Campus (Dziech and Weiner)

  Lerner, Stephen

  liability for sexual harassment

  Líderes Campesinas

  Likelihood to Sexually Harass (LSH) scale

  Lisak, David

  Lopes, María

  López, Jesús

  Low Wage, High Risk project (Futures Without Violence)

  Loyola University School of Law

  Luna, Irma

  MacKinnon, Catharine

  Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund (MCTF); battling wage theft by janitorial companies; collaboration with SEIU United Workers West on promotora program; filing complaints/lawsuits; follow-up meetings and ongoing contact with workers; gathering workers’ contact information (database of workers); immigration policy assistance; Lilia García and; surprise undercover inspections and support for night-shift janitorial workers; Vicky Márquez and; and Ya Basta Coalition

  “Making a Difference Project” study (End Violence Against Women International)

  Malamuth, Neil

  Mangum, Crystal

  Marín, Juan; career as Evans Fruit foreman; firing from Evans Fruit for embezzlement; immigration story; testimony at trial. See also Evans Fruit (Washington)

  Márquez, Nicole

  Márquez, Vicky; and Georgina Hernández’s story; MCTF and nighttime undercover outreach operations

  Marquis, Joshua

  Martin, Trayvon

  Martínez, Fabby

  Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2017)

  Matheny, Ken

  MCTF. See Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund (MCTF)

  meatpacking plant workers

  Mendelson, Richard

  Mendoza, Ángela

  Mercado, Andrea Cristina

  Merit Systems Protection Board’s “Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace: Is It a Problem?” (1981)

  Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986)

  Mexico, labor immigrants from; Georgina’s Hernández’s border-crossing experience

  Miami Workers Center

  military women and sexual harassment in the workplace

  minimum wage laws: domestic workers and; janitors

  Monahan, Brendan

  Morales, Erika

  Moreno Farms (Florida)

  Moynahan, Marley

  Mujeres Unidas y Activas

  Nadasen, Premilla

  Napa State Hospital (California)

  National Committee on Household Employment

  National District Attorneys Association

  National Domestic Workers Alliance; and Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights; “Home Economics: The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work” (2012 report)

  National Institute of Mental Health

  National Labor Relations Act (1935)

  National Women’s Law Center

  Nevada legislation and domestic workers

  New Deal legislation

  New Florida Majority

  New York Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights

  New York Domestic Workers Justice Coalition

  New York State: domestic workers’ legislative reform movement; state level workplace violence standards

  New York Times

  Ng’ambi, Estella

  Nigeria, trafficking of domestic workers from

  9to5

  Northwest Justice Project

  Nurse Alliance of California (SEIU)

  Occupational Health and Safety Standards Board (California)

  Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970). See also U.S. Occupational Safety and Health A
dministration (OSHA)

  Office on Violence Against Women at the U.S. Department of Justice

  Olivo, Marcia

  Ontario, Canada

  organizational culture and sexual harassment in the workplace

  organized labor. See labor unions and labor movement

  OSHA. See Occupational Safety and Health Act (1970); U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

  overtime pay: domestic workers; federal legislation; janitors. See also wage theft

  Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center at University of Washington-Bothell

  Pacific Tomato Growers (Palmetto, Florida)

  Palomata, Cynthia

  Park, Anna

  Paterson, David

  PBS Frontline

  perceptions research

  Perea, Juan F.

  Perez, Karla

  Philippines

  Pilipino Workers Center (Los Angeles)

  Poehler, Amy

  Poo, Ai-jen

  preventing workplace sexual harassment; annual farm audits and site visits (Fair Food Program); bystander intervention trainings; changing organizational culture; complaint hotlines (Fair Food Program); EEOC’s Select Task Force (2015); efforts to create fair and safe working conditions for farmworkers; farmworkers; “Green Dot” program; health care workers; at Pacific Tomato Growers; workplace sexual violence training programs; workplace violence standards and health/safety regulations

  promotora programs for janitors; and California legislation addressing workers’ harassment; cleaning companies’ participation in; hunger strike; training programs

  Pryor, John B.

  psychological research on sexual harassment in the workplace; effect of group social norms on harassment; Fitzgerald’s research; how women respond to sexual harassment; identifying characteristics of men most likely to sexually abuse/harass; influence of authority figures’ tolerance of harassment; Malamuth’s research on male sexual aggression; Malamuth’s study of men with a “high likelihood to rape”; organizational culture and work environment; perceptions research; Pryor’s Likelihood to Sexually Harass (LSH) scale; Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ); social pressure and situational sexual harassment

  Ramírez, Mónica

  Ramírez, Rosa

  rape: chastity requirements and history of rape laws; corroborating evidence requirements; false reports and unfounded cases; men with a “high likelihood to rape” (Malamuth’s study); rape laws and skepticism toward victims; “real rape” stereotype; reframing as workplace health and safety issue; shifting definitions (gendered and racialized notions). See also reporting sexual harassment and assault in the workplace

  Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network

  “Rape in the Fields” (2013 documentary)

  “Rape on the Night Shift” (2015 documentary)

  La Raza Centro Legal

  “real rape” stereotype/myth

  Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation (Freedman)

  Reed, Dennis

  Reisch, Jennifer

  remittances

  reporting sexual harassment and assault in the workplace; accusers’ treatment by the criminal justice system; alternative coping strategies and active management of problem (without reporting); assumption that victims respond/report immediately; being disbelieved/discredited; and differences between predicted response/actual response; EEOC complaints; false reports and unfounded cases; fear of losing a job/getting fired; fear of retaliation; findings from Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ); Fitzgerald’s research on how women respond to sexual harassment; Guadalupe Chávez; immigrants; military women; and neurobiology of trauma; professional women on the East Coast; rape laws and skepticism of victims; and self-blame by victims; and stereotype of “real rape”; why women don’t report; women in law enforcement

  Restaurant Opportunities Center United

  Rodríguez, Blanca

  Rodríguez, René

  Romero, Esmeralda

  Romero, Mary

  Rousseau Burnett, Linsay

  Safer Espinoza, Laura

  San Francisco domestic workers’ campaigns

  San Francisco Public Health Department

  Schultz, Mary

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold

  Seattle hotel workers

  SEIU. See SEIU United Workers West; Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

  SEIU United Workers West; addressing sexual assaults on night-shift janitorial workers; collaboration with MCTF on promotora program; contract negotiations with cleaning companies; union membership survey and importance of sexual harassment issue; and Ya Basta Coalition

  self-blame by sexual assault victims

  Senate Judiciary Committee

  Service Employees International Union (SEIU); California State Council; domestic workers’ advocacy; Justice for Janitors campaign; Nurse Alliance of California; sexual harassment training for union locals; and workplace violence prevention plans in California hospitals. See also SEIU United Workers West

  Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Nurse Alliance of California

  Sessions, Jeff

  settlement agreements

  Seville, Marci

  Sex Crimes: Then and Now (Vachss)

  sex-crime convictions

  Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ)

  “Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace: Is It a Problem?” (1981)

  sexual harassment in the workplace; Anita Hill’s testimony at Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing; false assumption that real victims respond immediately and aggressively; federal government employees; findings from Sexual Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ); he-said she-said cases; legal framework established by Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986); MacKinnon’s 1979 book; Merit Systems Protection Board’s 1981 report; military women; and organizational culture; professional women on the East Coast; psychological research on; victims’ coping strategies and active management of problem; women in law enforcement. See also psychological research on sexual harassment in the workplace; reporting sexual harassment and assault in the workplace; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination (MacKinnon)

  Shah, Hina

  Silva, Gerardo

  SMS (cleaning company)

  Soto, Leticia

  Southern Poverty Law Center

  Southwest Workers Union (Texas)

  Specter, Arlen

  Stratton, Lisa

  subcontracting: cleaning companies and janitorial work; third-party farm contractors

  Suko, Lonny

  Taco Bell

  Tamayo, Olivia

  Tamayo, William R.

  Tanimura & Antle

  Thomas, Clarence

  Time magazine

  Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (workplace sexual harassment); and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation; and domestic workers; EEOC lawsuits related to alleged violations

  trafficking, human

  training programs. See workplace sexual violence training programs

  trauma, neurobiology of

  Trump, Donald

  U visa program

  UCLA Labor Center

  UCLA Labor Center study of wage theft (2014)

  undocumented immigrants. See also immigrants

  unions. See labor unions and labor movement

  UNITE HERE

  United Auto Workers

  United Farm Workers

  United Nations

  Unity Housecleaners

  University of California at Santa Cruz

  University of California-Berkeley; Investigative Reporting Program; Labor Occupational Health Program

  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  University of Kentucky Violence Intervention and Prevention Center

  University of Minnesota’s law school

  University of Washington
-Bothell’s Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center

  Univision

  Urban Institute

  U.S. Department of Defense

  U.S. Department of Education

  U.S. Department of Justice: investigation of Baltimore Police Department (2016); Office on Violence Against Women; study of false rape reporting (2009)

  U.S. Department of Labor

  U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): Anita Hill’s accusation of workplace sexual harassment at; appeal of Evans Fruit verdict; companies sued for sexual harassment; and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation; Evans Fruit lawsuit; farmworkers’ assault complaints filed with; first guidelines on sexual harassment (1980); janitors’ civil lawsuits; number of complaints of sexual harassment/number of lawsuits filed; Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace (2015); on threats of retaliation after sexual harassment claims; and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act; workplace investigators’ training program

  U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Evans Fruit

  U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); and general duty clause of Occupational Safety and Health Act; and Trump administration; and workplace violence standards

  U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee

  U.S. Supreme Court: Anita Hill’s testimony at Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearing; Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson and sexual harassment in the workplace

  USA Today

  Vachss, Alice

  Valdez, Norma

  Vallejo, Ana

  Valles, Alejandra

  Vásquez, José

  verbal abuse and sexual harassment

  Vida Legal Assistance

  Vinson, Mechelle

  The Voice (magazine of the National District Attorneys Association)

  wage theft; Georgina Hernández and California’s anti-wage theft bill; janitorial companies; UCLA Labor Center study of (2014)

  wages. See minimum wage; overtime pay; wage theft

  Wagner, KC

  Washington State: workplace violence standards; Yakima Valley. See also Evans Fruit (Washington)

  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries

  Washington State Human Rights Commission

  welfare fraud

  Wells, Ida B.

  Whole Foods Market

  “Why Didn’t She Just Report Him? The Psychological and Legal Implications of Women’s Responses to Sexual Harassment” (Fitzgerald et al.)