Paige has been out on stress leave twice in 31 years. When she became the first dispatch operator in 1979, her boss made her clean male co-workers' desks and get them coffee, she says. He looked at pornographic magazines in the office, and when she threatened to complain, he stopped talking to her for several days, according to the lawsuit. Alice Jennings, the attorney who represents the plaintiffs in this and three other suits against Edison, says she gave the company an opportunity to address the issues in this new suit in settlement talks already under way with the other cases. Jennings is not optimistic that lawsuits are the solution at Edison.
People have to have a new way of thinking.
Ann Mullen is a Metro Times staff writer.