Lockheed, Race, and Mississippi
The Washington Post has moved to a pretty invasive signup process to get their news. This one is worth reading by hook or by crook. A snippet:
Lockheed Martin Corp., the Bethesda-based defense contracting giant, permitted a racially hostile work environment for black employees "to grow in intensity" at its Meridian, Miss., plant until an employee shot 14 workers -- 12 of them black -- there last summer, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation has found.
In most cases the EEOC is a political bureaucracy. During Republican administrations the high level bureaucrats are conservative, during Democratic administrations, the high level bureaucrats are moderate to liberal. At the lower levels? I'm not sure. But I would imagine this case to be extremely bad if it got passed the conservative bureaucrats running the EEOC now.
Wonder how long it'll take Discriminations to get to this one. I guess they're too busy reading social science fiction. The myth of Affirmative Action stigma is worthy of Bullfinch I think.
Posted by at July 13, 2004 08:17 AM
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The high level bureaucrats at EEOC have nothing to do with determinations of individual cases. Those decisions are made at the local level. As for the political persuasion of the lower level employees, suffice to say they are people whose careers center around investigating and punishing incidents of discrimination and harassment in the workplace.
The high level bureaucrats at EEOC have nothing to do with determinations of individual cases. Those decisions are made at the local level. As for the political persuasion of the lower level employees, suffice to say they are people whose careers center around investigating and punishing incidents of discrimination and harassment in the workplace.
Posted by: BTD Steve at July 14, 2004 09:37 AM