Fight
for your
right... to
Pump?
Got Rights? Nursing moms do indeed!
BY SHERRY POSNICK-GOODWIN
T
hree months after giving birth in 2012, Eileen Mantz returned
from maternity leave. Expecting support from the school
where she had taught for nine years, the algebra teacher
asked for a private place on campus where she could pump her
breasts twice daily and store milk to keep her baby healthy.
���Use a bathroom��� inside her classroom at California High School
was the answer ��� an option that Mantz found unsanitary, unacceptable and not in compliance with state law. Her administrator said
there was no other place to accommodate her needs, so she used the
staff lounge, covering herself with a blanket.
April 2013 www.cta.org
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