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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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“A lot of women do not complain,” Shirley Thomas-Moore said. <br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Thomas-Moore poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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“We were told it’s been handled,” said LaWanda Jordan, referring to her complaint about a supervisor who was fired two years later. “The case has been closed; we can’t discuss it.”<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Jordan poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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Tonya Exum, the Army veteran who reported being groped, recalled a union representative saying: “It’s not sexual harassment. He only did it one time.” When she asked him how he would feel if that happened to his mother or sister, he just walked away.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Exum poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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Christie Van said a supervisor who had been giving her easy jobs began asking her to “play hooky” from work with him.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Christie Van poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Charmella Adams poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Constance Madison poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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“The union, they really didn’t want us to call the hotline. It was going to close the plant,” Terri Lewis-Bledsoe said.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Lewis-Bledsoe poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Orissa Henry poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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“He looked at me and said, ‘You know you can have some of this too,’” Bernadette Clyburn said of a co-worker.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Clyburn poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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Miyoshi Morris was pressured into having sex with a supervisor while working at Ford. “No person should have to endure that,” she said of the inappropriate behavior at the plant. “You have to force yourself into a place of not feeling anything, of not having any emotion, to exist.”<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Morris poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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“I told him no every time. He kept on going with it," Shranda Campbell Salahuddin said.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Campbell Salahuddin poses for a portrait.
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  • Decades after the Ford Motor Company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, continued abuse raises questions about the possibility of change. The jobs were the best they would ever have: collecting union wages while working at one of America’s most storied companies. But inside two Chicago plants, the women were harassed and abused.<br />
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Danielle Kudirka, who moved to Chicago for her job at Ford, said it was the worst decision of her life.<br />
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Some women still remain at the job, but many have quit. Here, Kudirka poses for a portrait.
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