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:: Sunday, May 21, 2006 ::
The Family as Firing Offense - By Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
Williams studied almost 100 union arbitrations that, she writes, 'provide a unique window into how work and family responsibilities clash in the lives of bus drivers, telephone workers, construction linemen, nurse's aides, carpenters, welders, janitors and others.' Many are mothers, but this is not just a female problem. Divorced fathers, and families that patch together tag-team care, with parents working different shifts, are similarly vulnerable. Indeed, nearly everyone is a potential victim of child-care plans gone awry: Among working-class couples, only 16 percent have families in which one parent is the breadwinner and the other stays home.------------------------------------------- posted 8:01 AM :: reference link ::
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