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The true story of Lois Jenson, a petite single mother, who was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. Terrified of losing their jobs, the women kept their problems largely to themselvesuntil Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to file a complaint against the company in 1984. Despite all of the obstacles the legal system threw at them, Lois and her fellow plaintiffs enlisted the aid of a dedicated team of lawyers and ultimately prevailed. Weaving personal stories with legal drama, Class Action shows how these terrifically brave women made history, although not without enormous personal cost. Told at a thrillers pace, this is the story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States, a legal milestone that immeasurably improved working conditions for American women.

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Class Action

Brilliantly reported, documented, and written. Protagonist Lois Jenson, a worker in a Minnesota mine, is the real Erin Brockovich. Her war is not only that of every woman but of every citizen.

Bob Woodward, author of All the Presidents Men

A suspenseful page-turner. The reader feels a need to know what happens next.

Newsday

Tells an important story of how the law can effect change and bring justice into our lives. As women, we are indebted to Lois Jenson for her courage and to Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler for giving it voice.

Caroline Kennedy, author of In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action

Anyone who doubts that such a thing as a sexually hostile work environment exists should read Class Action.

Elle

Harrowing. An enlightening, fast-moving narrative.

BookPage

Always riveting, often horrific. An unsparing look at the real nature of judicial progressand the costs of even the most dramatic courtroom victories.

Jeffrey Toobin, author of A Vast Conspiracy

A suspenseful narrative.

Time

Courageous. Bingham and Ganslers dogged legal anthropology [shows] you dont need bright-line heroism and villainy to bundle together disparate acts of everyday degradation, name them and demand justice.

New York Observer

Bingham and Ganslers fast-paced account of the sexual harassment suit that forever altered the law is much stranger than fiction.

Marie Claire

Readable and well-reported. A fascinating piece of history.

The Deseret News

ALSO BY CLARA BINGHAM

Women on the Hill:
Challenging the Culture of Congress

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CLARA BINGHAM and LAURA LEEDY GANSLER

Class Action

Clara Bingham is a former White House correspondent for Newsweek and wrote Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. She has written for Talk, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, and The Washington Monthly. She is a graduate of Harvard University.

Laura Leedy Gansler is a lawyer specializing in alternative dispute resolution and securities law. She is a former adjunct law professor at American University. After graduating from Harvard University, Gansler received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1989.

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For Sam, Jamie, Will,
Henry, and Diana

Contents

PART ONE
Close to the Land,
Far From the Law
1975-1987

PART TWO
Rough Justice
1988-1995

PART THREE
The Verdicts
1996-1998

PART ONE
Close
to the Land,
Far From the
Law
1975-1987
CHAPTER ONE
The Mine
MARCH 1975

I t snowed all day and night on Sunday. By dawn, three feet of snow covered the Mesabi Iron Range. Lois Jenson warmed her delicate hands on her coffee mug as she looked out the window of her small house in Virginia, Minnesota. She glanced at the clock on the kitchen wall: 6:15. She drank the last of her coffee and set the mug in the sink. It was Monday, March 25, 1975, Loiss first day of work at Eveleth Mines. If she didnt want to be late, she had better give herself some extra time. The day shift started at 7:00 A.M. In this weather, it would not be a twenty-minute trip.

Luckily, her turquoise Ford Maverick rode high over the road, and though she had to inch along on Highway 37, she could clear most of the snow on the two-lane road, which cut a straight line through the austere landscape of aspen, birch, and jack pine. In the distance she could make out the three twenty-story stacks of the mines Forbes Fairlane Plant, each mounting a tall white column of smoke in the bitter northern Minnesota sky.

At the town of Forbes she turned onto the long drive leading to the plant. Up ahead, a man flagged her down. She saw his pickup buried in a snow drift and when she discovered that he, too, was on his way to the plant, she gave him a ride. His name was Clarence Mattson. He told Lois he was an electrician and that hed worked at Eveleth for ten years. He seemed like a decent guy, and he mentioned that the men were bellyaching about how, starting today, they had to behave themselves and clean up their language. He showed her where to park in the employee lot and where she should enter the enormous plant. The truth was, she felt relieved to be arriving at this place accompanied. The closer she got, the more it looked to her like a steel monster with tentacles jutting out from all sides. But, she thought, as she stepped out of the Maverick and into her new life as an iron miner, If everyones this friendly, Im going to like this job.

As Lois and Mattson walked the fifty yards uphill to the main building, they were quickly joined by dozens of men. Most of them were streaming out of the building, dirty and tired after working the midnight shift; the rest were arriving to punch in for the day. Lois noticed that these guys were staring at her. She was twenty-seven years old, with shoulder-length wavy blond hair, blue eyes, and pale, clear skina Scandinavian beauty with a slender waist and an elegant long neck. She was used to feeling mens eyes upon her, but this time it was different. It felt as if the men had never seen a woman before.

Lois hurried into the trailer Mattson said was serving as the womens changing room while the mine built its four new female miners a permanent drya term left over from the days when miners worked deep underground, often in several feet of water. The dry house was where they changed into their clean clothes at the end of a shift. Because of the snow, Loiss three female colleagues hadnt made it to their first day of work, so she found herself alone in the small, barely heated room. The starkness of the quarters startled her: twelve steel lockers, a table, four chairs, and a shower, sink, and toilet stall, none of which worked on account of the cold. Waiting for her in the locker room was a white hard hat with a blue stripe and the name JENSON printed on the brim in block letters, a pair of mens size six Red Wing work boots, and clunky plastic protective glasses. In the unheated room, she changed into thermal underwear, a sweatshirt, a down vest, gray-and-blue striped coveralls she had bought the day before, the boots, plastic protective glasses, and hard hat. She stood in front of the mirror over the sink and burst out laughingthe person in the mirror looked like an auto mechanic, not a mother. Lois held her breath for a few seconds and walked out into the plant, where her first task was to go on a tour.

The Forbes Fairlane Plant evoked fear in a newcomer. Dominated by four cavernous buildings, the fine crusher, the surge, the concentrator, and the pellet plant, the facility sprawled over 2.3 million square feetas if all 102 floors of New Yorks Empire State Building (2.1 million square feet) were spread end to end across the snowy Iron Range. That didnt even include the Thunderbird Mine, two open pits devouring 8,600 acres, from which spewed the iron orerich taconite rock that was mined. The plant operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and consumed 70 megawatts of electricity per hourabout as much as the neighboring cities of Virginia, Eveleth, and Hibbing combined. The year the women started, the management of Eveleth Mines had ordered Forbes Fairlanes production capacity be expanded from 2.4 million tons of taconite pellets a year to 6 million tons. Everywhere she looked, Lois could see construction crews at work upgrading and enlarging the facilities.

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