Tunis v. Corning Glass Works

ROBERT L. CARTER, District Judge.

I

Catherine Tunis was employed by Corning Glass at its Fall Brook plant beginning *954April 1,1976, as a process engineer in glass technology. In 1976, there were about 300 production and maintenance workers and 50 salaried employees at the plant, of which 25 were in the engineering department in which Tunis worked.

Morning production meetings were held daily. It was Tunis’ job to identify quality defects in the tubing where the glass was being formed and to give her findings at the morning meetings as to the cause of the flaws she discovered. To accomplish this…