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Aug. 24, 2017, 2:46 PM UTC

Ex-Uber Engineer Takes Her Tale of Harassment to Supreme Court

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By Peter Blumberg, Bloomberg News

Susan Fowler , whose blog post helped drive Uber Technologies Inc.’s Travis Kalanick out of his job, is now weighing in about toxic workplaces at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The former software engineer at the San Francisco-based startup asked the nation’s highest court to forbid companies from barring disgruntled employees like herself from banding together with others to sue over their work conditions.

Fowler ignited an uproar inside the company and throughout the tech industry with her accusations that her former manager had propositioned her for sex and that Uber’s human resources department told her ...

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