Class action: 15,000 Black Employees Suing Boeing Airlines
Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 09:58AM
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Current and former
African-American employees of Boeing Co. have been granted class-action
status in their lawsuit accusing the defense giant of discrimination
and harassing black workers. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Marsha
Pechman means about 15,000 African-American salaried workers employed
by the Chicago-based company from June 6, 1994, to the present can
unite under one complaint to seek damages. The lawsuit, filed in 1998,
doesn't include executives and technicians represented by the Society
of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace. Boeing spokesman
Ken Mercer said the company "is confident it will prevail at trial on
the issues." [more]
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