#Trump EEOC,agency responsible for stopping workplace discrimination has been stripped of employees

This article really shows that so many employers are just plain mean!




“The law was not written for us.” How the agency responsible for stopping workplace discrimination has been stripped of employees (chart) and weakened. Workers who face nooses at work and widespread bias are not being protected https://publicintegrity.org/workers-rights/workplace-inequities/injustice-at-work/workplace-discrimination-cases/ … @Publici @voxdotcom

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Despite legal protections, most workers who face discrimination are on their own – Center for Public Integrity
Maryam Jameel


22-28 minutes
Introduction

MOBILE, Alabama — Ron Law walked into the breakroom at work one morning and found a noose hanging from the ceiling.

It was one of eight nooses that black employees reported discovering at the Austal USA shipyard, according to court filings. They were part of a chilling pattern, the workers alleged: Racist graffiti regularly appeared in the men’s restrooms — the workers described images of hanging men, threats against specific employees and Ku Klux Klan references scribbled inside stalls and on mirrors and walls.

Sometimes, workers said, slurs were etched into the ships Law and others helped build for the United States Navy. Law said he heard a white supervisor refer to black employees as “monkeys” over his walkie-talkie.

Law and more than a dozen of his fellow black co-workers sought relief through the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency created to eradicate job discrimination and investigate workers’ complaints. A year later, their case still not resolved, they gave up waiting on the EEOC for help.

That’s how it often goes. Each year the EEOC and its state and local partner agencies close more than 100,000 cases. But workers receive some form of assistance, such as money or a change in work conditions, only 18 percent of the time.

John Hendrickson, who spent 36 years as an EEOC attorney in Chicago before retiring in 2017, said too many cases are falling through the cracks. “In some offices it was really amazing how little discrimination they found,” said Hendrickson, who was head of litigation for a six-state region. “Many of [the cases] weren’t professionally investigated.”..................................