Megan Cornish

**Megan Cornish** (an haife ta a ranar 27 ga Mayu, 1947) 'yar gurguzu ce kuma mai fafutukar kare haƙƙin ɗan adam ta Amurka tare da Jam'iyyar 'Yancin Gurguzu (FSP) da Radical Women, da kuma mai aikin lantarki mai ritaya a Seattle City Light .  Cornish ta zama mai aikin lantarki bayan ta shiga cikin wani shirin tabbatar da adalci a 1974. Yawancin ayyukanta na fafutuka sun mayar da hankali kan yaƙi da wariyar launin fata a wurin aiki a Seattle City Light.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Cornish a ranar 27 ga Mayu, 1947, a cikin dangin sojoji a Oswego, New York, kuma ta yi yarinta a wurare daban-daban a faɗin Amurka. Cornish ta ce ta sha'awar ra'ayin mata bayan ta karanta *The Feminine Mystique*, tana bayyana tasirin littafin a kanta kamar "kamar an jefa bam."  Bayan kammala karatunta daga Jami'ar Cornell a 1969 tare da digiri na farko a fannin adabi, Cornish ta ƙaura zuwa yankin Puget Sound kuma ta yi aiki a The Shelter Half, wani gidan kofi na GI, a matsayin wani ɓangare na ƙungiyar yaƙi da yaƙi a Tacoma, Washington .  A wannan lokacin ne Cornish ta shiga cikin ƙungiyoyin kwadago, yaƙi da yaƙi, da kuma raba ƙasa . An kama ta yayin da take shiga wani zanga-zanga a madadin Ƙungiyar Ma'aikatan Gine-gine ta United. Fafutukarta ta mayar da hankali kan ƙirƙirar damarmakin aiki a fannin sana'o'i ga baƙar fata maza, kuma daga baya ta ce "bai taɓa fahimtar cewa zan iya [neman aikin yi] ba." 

### Shiga Cikin Mata Masu Tsattsauran Ra'ayi
A farkon shekarunta a yankin Pacific Northwest, Cornish ba ta cikin wata ƙungiya ko ƙungiya ta hukuma ba, amma ta shiga ƙungiyar Radical Women a shekarar 1972 bayan da ta shiga tsarin haɗin gwiwa na ƙungiyar, tana mai cewa "sun haɗa komai [ Haƙƙin Baƙar fata, rashin ballewa, yaƙi da yaƙi, aiki, 'yancin mata, da sauransu] tare."  Shiga cikin ƙungiyar Radical Women ne ya fara tura Cornish ta yi tunani sosai game da rawar da ƙungiyar ma'aikata ke takawa kuma ta ƙara sha'awar tsara ƙungiyar ma'aikata. Ta sami aiki a wani gidan kula da tsofaffi inda wani memba na ƙungiyar Radical Women ke aiki a matsayin mai shirya ƙungiyar ma'aikata . Ta yi aiki na ɗan lokaci a wani wurin wanki na masana'antu, amma ta yi murabus bayan ta ji takaici da ayyukan ra'ayin mazan jiya da rashin bin dimokuraɗiyya na shugabancin Teamster . A shekarar 1974, Cornish, tare da sauran membobin FSP da Radical Women, sun yi zanga-zangar ma'aikatan malamai da masu kula da su a Jami'ar Washington, wanda daga baya ta bayyana a matsayin farkon bayyanar ƙima .

## Aiki da tsari a City Light

### Shirin Horar da Masu Sana'o'in Lantarki
A shekarar 1974, Clara Fraser, wacce ta kafa ƙungiyar Radical Women kuma mai kula da ilimi a Seattle City Light, ta shawo kan Cornish da ta nemi aiki a matsayin mai horar da 'yan kasuwa na Electrical Trades (ETT), wani shiri na mata da Fraser ya tsara don haɗa mata cikin sana'o'in wutar lantarki.  Gordon Vickery, tsohon shugaban kashe gobara kuma babban jami'in kula da City Light, yana binciken yiwuwar tsayawa takarar magajin gari kuma yana fatan ya ambaci nasarar kammala shirin ETT na mata a matsayin ginshiƙin gogewarsa a zaɓen gaba. Don ƙara damar samun nasarar shirin, an ɗauki Fraser aiki don sake tsara shirin ETT ta hanyar da ba ta kwafi shirye-shiryen tabbatar da daidaito ga mazan baƙar fata a kamfanin ba. Ba kamar shirye-shiryen da suka gabata ba, an ba wa mata membobin ETT ƙarin horo kuma an ba su damar shiga IBEW Local 77 tare da sashin ciniki na kansu a cikin ƙungiyar. 

Ba da daɗewa ba kafin fara horon ta, an yi wa ma'aikata kwana goma sha ɗaya sallama a matsayin martani ga sabuwar dokar ladabtarwa da Vickery ta gabatar, kuma an dakatar da City Light. [1] Fraser ta shiga cikin yajin aikin kuma ta shirya wasu, galibi mata, ma'aikatan limamai marasa haɗin gwiwa, waɗanda goyon bayansu ya zama dole ga nasarar yajin aikin. Duk da cewa wannan ya ƙarfafa dangantakar Fraser da IBEW da galibin ma'aikatan wutar lantarki maza, dangantakarta da Vickery da gudanarwa ta lalace. An kori Fraser a shekara mai zuwa a wani aiki da magoya bayanta suka ɗauka a matsayin ramuwar gayya.

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