EEOC Case of Racial Discrimination against DHL The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s role in this lawsuit was to act on behalf of the black drivers who believed that they had been treated unfairly. After receiving more than 20 complaints of discrimination, the EEOC conducted an administrative investigation to discover if segregation or other discrimination had taken place (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2010). After the investigation was performed, the EEOC helped the African American employees try to reach a settlement. DHL and the men could not reach an agreement, therefore, on behalf of the federal government, the EEOC helped to process the charges and pursue litigation.
Destini .E. Azzato Fall 2012 Employment Law Professor Kathleen Stallmer Web Assignment: OSHA Back in the 1990’s there were a lot of companies still getting the hang of just how serious OSHA was about keeping employees safe and out of harms way. This was apparent with both Tyson Food Company. and the Ford Motor Company. OSHA is abbreviated to stand for Occupational Safety & Health Administration.
This event was important because it gained international attention which put pressure on the different structures of the American government to make changes, and finally in 1965 the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was illegal. It also brought the black community closer together to stand up for their rights this is shown when Jo Ann Robinson a head of a group of professional black women in Montgomery says, ‘we are asking every negro to stay off
The people in the meeting concluded that the slavery is “both impolitic and unjust.” Hochschild also added that the aftermath of the meeting marks the first time they saw that large number of people in “one country” becomes “outraged” for many years and not in one country but also from other parts of the world. The movement spread immediately, made the slavery trade became the main subject in in London discussions. Many anti-slavery posters and books flooded the country. People wanted to end this slavery. However, it took 50 years to end the slavery in Britain and took also another 25 years of its abolition in the United States.
Martin Luther King spoke over 2,500 times and led marches and nonviolent demonstrations for black people to vote, desegregation, labor and other basic civil rights for all. In his famous speech “ I have a dream” he shared his vision of equal rights all around the world. In his later days He kept fighting for what he believed in even after being threatened constantly, arrested, and having his house bombed. He kept fighting for human rights up to April 4th 1968, when he was assassinated on his hotel balcony. Martin Luther King has become an inspiration to many around the world; he is the global citizen of the
In 1998, CNN News featured a story that was a bit unusual. Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kansas, was brought into the media spotlight by public interest in something a bit unusual: Protesting a funeral. The congregation of Westboro Baptist gathered to picket the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Wyoming who was beaten to death by two other men because of his homosexuality. Since then, the church has become well known for all of their controversial protests around the united states. The church estimates that WBC has conducted over 30,000 pickets, in all 50 states, in over 500 cities and towns.
There were even white people who sat next to the black people in order to show their support that they were all equal. This act enraged some white people and consequently they attacked many of these buses on their way to the states. The Montgomery First Baptist Church Attack was an incident when Martin Luther King went to the church and joined one thousand and five hundred people to support the Freedom Riders.
The Brown family's case was brought to the Supreme Court by the NAACP; they were an organisation which fought for the rights of coloured people. The NAACP won this important case, and the Supreme Court decided to integrate schools, this was the first victory for the Civil Rights Movement. The supreme court decided to outlaw the statement that was made in 1896; 'separate but equal', and make this illegal, the supreme courts reasons for this were that black children had been raised as inferior beings within the community and this should change. Although the supreme courts decision had been made this caused many problems for the white southerners, many riots broke out as there were still strong racial attitudes within the south. Many white southerners did not want their children in the same classroom as
He made the truth known to the public about the industry's disregard for health and safety during an interview with 60 MINUTES and during a deposition he was compelled to give in an action against the tobacco companies. ! A lawsuit was filed against him by Brown & Williamson because of his public disclosures about the industry's efforts to minimize the health and safety issue of tobacco use. (Louisville-based Brown & Williamson is owned by BAT Industries, Plc, the world's second largest tobacco concern.) The lawsuit was dismissed as a condition of the June 20, 1997 historic $368 billion settlement between the Attorneys General of 40 States and the tobacco industry.
For example: Race would define an African American but ethnicity would tell us where he and his ancestors come from. There is more attention given to race an ethnicity in our daily lives than we can imagine, in newspapers or in politics. People get hired or discriminated against because of their race. I can relate to this because, after the 9/11 attack, some of my family friends who were Muslims were called in for questioning and even lost their jobs because no one wanted to keep Muslims and any one who looked like them i.e. south east Asians as employees.