Bonnie Robichaud
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Bonnie Robichaud is a Canadian labour activist and public speaker whose campaign against sexual harassment while working for at Canadian Forces Base North Bay ultimately led to a Supreme Court decision that employers are responsible for maintaining a safe, respectful, harassment-free workplace.[1][2]
After a string of dead-end jobs, mother-of-five Robichaud was first hired by the Department of National Defense in 1977 to work as a cleaner, a unionized position with steady pay and benefits.[3] However, a few weeks after being hired, her supervisor began to sexual harass her[4], and attempts to avoid him or tell him to stop were unsuccessful. After her probationary period, she filed a grievance with her superiors and was told she was the first person to ever complain, to which she replied, "Good. Then it should be easy to fix."[5][3]
Initially, her union, PSAC were not supportive of her complaint, so Robichaud started a grassroots campaign to reach out to other women in the union and other labour organizations, publishing her own newsletter, and ultimately gaining enough supporters to pressure the national union to support her legal case through the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the Canadian Federal Court, and eventually the Supreme Court of Canada.[1]
Her memoir It Should Be Easy to Fix was published in 2022 by Between the Lines.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Fighting Back, How Bonnie Robichaud Made History". Workers' History Museum. 2021. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
- ↑ litigants=Robichaud v. Canada (Treasury Board) |court=Supreme Court of Canada |date=July 29, 1987 |url=https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/236/index.do |access-date=March 7, 2022 }}
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 url= http://activehistory.ca/2022/03/historyslam206/%7C title= Fighting Sexual Harassment in the Workplace| website= http://activehistory.ca/2022/03/historyslam206/%7C publisher= Active History| host= Sean Graham| date= March 10, 2022| access-date= March 10, 2022}}
- ↑ Clark, Marc; Gessell, Paul (August 10, 1987). "No to sexual harassment". Maclean's. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
- ↑ "It Should Be Easy to Fix". Between the Lines. 2021. Retrieved March 7, 2022.
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