Friday, August 01, 2003 Reuters Racist? On top of the Deanna Wrenn affair, now this:01 August 2003
The Reuters news group and one of its US subsidiaries is being sued for racial discrimination over allegations that a "white, public school attitude" tolerated and encouraged a racist environment in which black employees were abused and persecuted.
The class action announced yesterday alleges that black employees at Radianz � a US-based internet services subsidiary of Reuters � were forced to work in "an outrageous, patently offensive environment". One black employee was repeatedly referred to as "my nigger" by a white supervisor and was sent racially offensive emails, the action alleges.
"It's astounding," said Douglas Wigdor, one of the lawyers bringing the action on behalf of two employees and one former member of staff. "The only way I can account for this is that the management have done nothing about this. The company's general counsel told one of our clients that nothing could be done because the company is run by white men from England and 'what can you do about it'. It's that public school mentality." Hat tip to my brother, who sent me this link at the Independent.Run by white men from England. ROTFL. -- posted by Chuck at Friday, August 01, 2003 | E-mail | Permalink | Main |
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