Workers Comp Help
Shipyard Laborer Injured At Work
A bad year 1989 hired as a laborer in a shipyard involved in the overhaul of Coast Guard Cutters. Very long hiring process did they pick up the fact I was pregnant by the urine test probably. Missing two days of a supper long 45 day probationary period.
When I showed up the next day the leadsmen acted very aggressive about my absence and stupidly. I told them I had had an abortion. Trying to defend a full term commitment to a child as a single woman in a industrial environment seemed ludicrous.
Naturally the male workforce will become wildly pro-life depending on the direction of the wind. I am given an "deceptive job assignment in a tank where over a period of a week entering and leaving the tank I am slowly tearing tissue in the groin area without knowing it except subliminally on the last day as a warm jab in the abdomen startle me. Then it was open admission the next few months that they hated certain women employees.
I stayed on the job four and a half years and was eventually fired for loss of cartilage in both knees. I stayed to be fired because I knew that I would never get private medical insurance again. Because of the firing the lawyers created a class action based on a group of us so summarily trashed. Of course you are told very little about anything medically because you are working in correspondence with Medicare having signed off with the employer to have the right to sneak in one last positive work situation and try to regain your privacy which in my case is on going invasion.
Your relations with your family is placed paramount as you face an early death. But if I can help any women in the future who may choose to do non-traditional not have their reproductive rights made a public arena trial to death then I am at peace with dying young.