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As her first pregnancy progressed in 2013, Adrienne Donato, an 11-year journeyman ironworker in New York City, began to stress.
With no rules or role models for being pregnant on the job, she didn’t know how to inform bosses and co-workers. She feared difficulties in working with heavy equipment such as the "helldog," [a rivet removal device] she was using on vertical truss replacement work on the Brooklyn Bridge and losing medical coverage if laid off.
Donato was allowed to work safely in different project and union roles up to within two weeks of delivery on her first pregnancy, one month on her second, until she was laid off and able to collect workers’ comp. Returning to work each time after six months, she now works on the $2-billion George Washington Bridge overhaul, on which she is shop steward.
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但关心不够and unclear policies that could leave other ironworker women vulnerable, Donato alerted newly-named safety and diversity chief Vicki O’Leary, urging broad changes. O’Leary says the issues Donato raised “stuck in her mind.”
After hearing of Illinois apprentice Bridget Booker’s unreported pregnancy and miscarriage, ironworkers’ leadership moved to adapt existing union off-the-job accident coverage to provide maternity leave. Booker also returned to work, becoming her local’s first black woman foreman, and now president of her own contracting firm, Reign Construction.
该建筑物交易领先的产妇福利于2017年通过对铁工的影响力管理信托基金会的贡献，为合格的孕妇造产者提供了长达六个月的带薪休假，并在分娩前和最多八周的假期。
“这是出于安全原因。我们不知道如果您要焊接或戴上安全带，对胎儿的长期影响是什么。
No other trade has enacted union-wide maternity coverage, but some of their locals are looking at implementing it in local bargaining units. Also, Canada may add new federal pre-delivery coverage for tradeswomen there to an existing postpartum benefit that now extends up to 18 months.
Meanwhile, one unit of the carpenters’ union, which left the building trades in 2006, began offering maternity coverage last year.
“我们的卫生基金的成本很小，当向受托人提交时，这是一项交易，”由25,000名成员的北部国家地区秘书长约翰·雷恩斯（John G. Raines）说。“我们感到难过，我们没有早些时候做过。”
