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Kennedy Introduces Fair Pay Act in Senate

Posted by Stephanie Taylor on July 20, 2007 at 03:18 PM

Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) introduced the Fair Pay Restoration Act today to undo the damage done by the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire.

Lilly Ledbetter received less pay than her male colleagues through most of her twenty years as a supervisor at a Goodyear Tire factory in Gadsden, Alabama. She proved her case before a federal jury and was awarded back pay and punitive damages, but the company pursued the case, and she eventually lost before the Supreme Court.

People for the American Way filmed a powerful video about Lilly Ledbetter's experience. Watch it here:

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