Yesterday, the House passed a bill called the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. You may remember Ledbetter was the victim of an idiotic Supreme Court decision that denied her claim of discrimination because the Court said she had waited too long to file the claim. That outrageous decision would be overturned by law if the bill gets through the Senate and is signed by the president…an obvious steep hill to climb.

    The details are pretty clear in this press release from Rep. George Miller, chair of the House Education and Labor committee, who once again shows that he is a champion of workers.

    I found two things quite unbelievable. First, and actually not surprising, the passage of the House bill received virtually no coverage in the mainstream media–granted, I did a Google search and something may have slipped by. I guess reporters and their editors presume they would never face such discrimination.

    Lilly Ledbetter did get covered though by the Associated Press yesterday which has this appalling story:

Lilly Ledbetter, now a retiree from an Alabama plant, won nearly $4 million in her pay discrimination lawsuit against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company before the decision was reversed on appeal.

Now, Goodyear’s attorneys have sent the former Gadsden plant supervisor a bill for almost $3,200 for logistical expenses related to the lawsuit.

Ledbetter, who is 69 and now lives in Jacksonville, Florida, said she doesn’t have the money to pay it and is astonished that Goodyear would ask.