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Daughter Seeks Justice In Deceased Mother's Lawsuit

101909wisniewski-thumb-200x201-412931.jpg The daughter of a 44-year-old construction-safety inspector who was killed in a suspicious Flushing apartment fire earlier this week is vowing to continue her mother’s fight in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed months before her death.

"She was a strong woman," Nicole Kuros, 18, told the Daily News of her mother, Bianca Wisniewski, who filed a $20 million lawsuit in July charging she was sexually harassed at a JPMorgan Chase construction site on Park Ave. Kuros, speaking from the La Fe Funeral Home in Brooklyn, added, "She taught me how to be strong, and now I will be strong for her. We have to keep fighting."

Wisniewski, 44, died Sunday, a day before she was to testify against here former employer Total Safety Consulting and JPMorgan Chase. The suit alleges that an elevator operator, Steve Greco, propositioned and groped her at the bank construction site on Park Avenue, asking her to dinner and for a kiss and reminding her that construction is “a man's world, not a place for women to work.” Wisniewski's husband told the Daily News, "She was doing this not just to fight for what's right, but also to help other women out there."

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  • twisted

    its not about the money , its about fighting to keep the last thing her mother fought for. nicole lost her father years ago tragically and she now lost her mother to a fire. shes strong to keep fighting. shame on you. if shes a lazy bitch then what does that make the rest of us. you're ungrateful for your own life , dont look down on hers

  • inoyourider

    Looks like the local female union rep found my comment.

  • inoyourider

    Fucking bullshit.

    Cry us all a goddamn river while this lazy bitch is sitting in court waiting for a payout on behalf of her mother who didn't deserve any money either.

    And that is what this is about.

    If she were really strong she would have worked even harder to show her piece of trash supervisor how wrong he was.

    And disability for depression is a pile of shit too.

    Just more scamming of the system.

    The world doesn't owe anyone anything.

    Get over it.

  • Angela

    The lawsuit is for this much money in order for this CRIMINAL behavior to STOP. It is illegal to sexually harass women. It is illegal to discriminate based on gender. NO ONE IS ENFORCING IT ON UNIONIZED or NON-UNIONIZED CONSTRUCTION SITES ALL OVER NYC, OR THE COUNTRY, OR IN OTHER INDUSTRIES WHERE WOMEN's NUMBERS ARE AS LOW AS OURS (3%). If a woman or anyone, cannot get the behavior stopped through the appropriate channels, then the last resort is to make the criminal behavior too expensive. The owners, the companies, and the unions will stop accommodating this hostility towards women, if they will fear it will cause them to go broke. You might be interested to know that safety on construction sites is not enforced by OSHA. Safety on construction sites is enforced by insurance companies and owners representatives because the accidents and the subsequent lawsuits make building in NYC too expensive. OSHA only shows up if someone dies. Should we tell the accident victims no money for you? Stop your gold-digging.

    MANY women in construction have a great paper trail of having alerted, DOL, EEOC, OFCCP, OSHA, etc of the hazards, harassment, and discrimination faced by women in this field. Many of us have the same exact checklist as Bianca's: inappropriate contact in the form of kissing or groping, discrimination in hiring and retention, preferential treatment for male workers, worksites filled with pornographic graffitti. This brave woman was murdered because she tried to stop what has been going on for over thirty years. Its time to shine some light on construction's dark dirty secret. We will be her voice! This has only just begun.

    In Solidarity/Sisterhood

    Angela

  • laura kelber

    Bianca put up a heroic fight for all working women. Anyone who thinks it's about the money has no conception of the toll sexual harassment takes on women workers. I'm glad her brave daughter is vowing to continue the struggle. Kudos to Kuros!

  • Melinda

    This Woman had the courage to stand up to the harassment on the job. Bringing it to her employers attention and then loosing her job for it. She has the courage to file a lawsuit for this injustice. Women working in the construction industry suffer sexual harassment every day. They have to go thru this just to earn a living. Human Rights? Workers right? Where are they when it comes to women in blue collar trades? I've been involved directly(tradeswoman) and indirectly supporting all human causes. NOONE should have to go thru what Bianca Wisniewski went thru just to earn a living. The lawsuit was brought about to PUT AN END TO HARASSMENT ON THE JOB. IT'S NOT ABOUT MONEY IT'S ABOUT WOMENS/WORKERS RIGHTS. We will be her voice! This has only just begun. JP Morgan will not rest until Bianca Wisniewski rests!!!

    In Solidarity/Sisterhood,

    Melinda

  • inoyourider

    Not one dime.

    Penalties for the guilty, no more payouts.

    Why not just ask her what her mother was worth?

    If she truly wants justice she won;t take a dime.

    Get rid of the ambulance chasing mentality.

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