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Sexual harassment allegations at Brookline Trader Joe’s spur campaign to change corporate culture
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At first, Michaelann Ferro wasn’t sure what to do when an older co-worker at Trader Joe’s in Brookline tried to pull down her face mask to feed her pretzels and leered at her when she wore shorts. She even stayed silent when he kissed her on the mouth, in the middle of a pandemic.
When Ferro did report these and other incidents to the store manager, backed by statements from at least five other twentysomething employees who said they had witnessed or experienced inappropriate behavior by the same coworker, the store manager investigated, but concluded it was a “he said, she said” situation and the coworker would not be disciplined, Ferro said.
She and a group of current and former fellow employees took to social media. An online petition, signed by more than 7,000 people, calls on people to stand against sexual harassment at the store and asks other Trader Joe’s workers to share their stories.
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