Workers at the Asheville Sitel office attempted to form a union, and allege management threatened they would lose their jobs if they persisted. They responded by filing a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board. According to a representative of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, complaints were raised because over 150 women had to share a single toilet.
Now this seems a little silly. First of all, toilets normally don’t run on electricity. Second of all, wouldn’t it be easier to ask the employer for another toilet, or pretend one is going on smoke break and duck behind the bushes? Rather than forming a union, all the women could have protested by soiling their chairs. That should have raised enough of a stink to get some results.
