NAACP sues US Airways, accuses it of discrimination

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The NAACP is accusing US Airways, in a lawsuit, of discriminating against African American employees by assigning them to less desirable gates and shifts and by giving work areas dominated by African American employees racially loaded nicknames such as "Compton," "Camden," and "The Ghetto."

Shifts and areas with more white workers are called "Frankford," "South Philly," and "King of Prussia," the suit says.

The suit, which was filed late Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, claims that US Airways Group Inc. employees and managers openly used the derogatory terms.

Three former airline employees also brought the suit. One of them, Tiffany Salters, a customer-service manager, said she was told that she had to quit her position as secretary of the Camden County branch of the NAACP or lose her job at US Airways.

She felt she was "harassed" by managers because of her work with the NAACP, she said, and ultimately was fired in 2007 for a security lapse she said was not her responsibility.

"It really was bad there," Salters said in an interview yesterday. She said she had been unable to find a job since.

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The company itself might take discrimination seriously, but mid level managers might not have felt the same way.

If that's the case, the entire corporation will pay for the misgivings of some people in middle management.

Thems the breaks if you want to organize as a corporation.
 
NAACP has it's opinion which we see here. I'm sure US Airways has it's side. Honestly I don't believe that any manager at USAir would tell an employee to quit their position at the NAACP. I'm just not buying it. I'd like to know USAir's position on why the employees were terminated.
 
Baronman said:
NAACP has it's opinion which we see here. I'm sure US Airways has it's side. Honestly I don't believe that any manager at USAir would tell an employee to quit their position at the NAACP. I'm just not buying it. I'd like to know USAir's position on why the employees were terminated.
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It might have been "you can either work there or here but you need to make a choice because we need you to be available between X-Y times on these days".

Or something similar.
 
wheelsup said:
It might have been "you can either work there or here but you need to make a choice because we need you to be available between X-Y times on these days".

Or something similar.
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With how expensive litigation is, and given the limited resources of the NAACP, I'd imagine that they already had answers to questions such as these prior to filing.

Just a guess.
 
Maybe.

Plus from what I see the majority of managers in PHL are black too.

deleted the rest because I don't want to be called the r word.
 
I dunno guys, I've witnessed some pretty blatant racist BS from supervisory personnel in Philly..This suit probably has some teeth to it.
 
The last paragraph states:

"Terminal F, occupied by US Airways subsidiary Piedmont Airlines, was known as "The Ghetto." The remote terminal, the complaint said, has fewer amenities and is perceived to have more minority or lower-income passengers."

so I guess lower income passengers are the only ones going to smaller cities....reporting FAIL
 
CFIT99 said:
The last paragraph states:

"Terminal F, occupied by US Airways subsidiary Piedmont Airlines, was known as "The Ghetto." The remote terminal, the complaint said, has fewer amenities and is perceived to have more minority or lower-income passengers."

so I guess lower income passengers are the only ones going to smaller cities....reporting FAIL
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Huh? So USAIR has to pay because it's employees nick-named a less-than-desirable part of the airport "the ghetto?" I didn't know ghettos are race-exclusive.
 
Baronman said:
Huh? So USAIR has to pay because it's employees nick-named a less-than-desirable part of the airport "the ghetto?" I didn't know ghettos are race-exclusive.
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...you...are you serious? A ghetto is by definition, based on race. See definition 2:

Main Entry: 1ghet·to
Pronunciation: \ˈge-(ˌ)tō\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural ghettos also ghettoes
Etymology: Italian, from Venetian dial. ghèto island where Jews were forced to live, literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr to cast, from Latin jactare to throw — more at jet
Date: 1611
1 : a quarter of a city in which Jews were formerly required to live
2 : a quarter of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure
3 a : an isolated group <a geriatric ghetto> b : a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity <the pink-collar ghetto>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ghetto
 
jtrain609 said:
...you...are you serious?
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Dead serious. All sorts of different groups have lived in ghettos. A ghetto does not specify any group in particular. In fact the ghettos in NY had all sorts of groups living in it. Jews, Italians, Blacks...you name it.

In fact...what a racist thing to suggest that only one group lives in ghettos.
 
jtrain609 said:
...you...are you serious? A ghetto is by definition, based on race. See definition 2:
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I think it might be a popular usage sort of deal. This is taken from the Urban Dictionary. I know I know, hardly a serious reference for etymology, but I would hazard a guess that THIS is what MOST people are refering to on a daily basis when they mention Ghetto. Not some place where Jews were forced to live.

1. (n.) an impoverished, neglected, or otherwise disadvantaged residential area of a city, usually troubled by a disproportionately large amount of crime
2. (adj.) urban; of or relating to (inner) city life
3. (adj.) poor; of or relating to the poor life
4. (adj.) jury-rigged, improvised, or home-made (usually with extremely cheap or sub-standard components), yet still deserving of an odd sense of respect from ghetto dwellers and non-ghetto dwellers alike.

Seems pretty open ended as far as race goes.
 
Figures Piedmonts gate area is known as "The ghetto"... :laff::laff:

As for white on black racism there, I never noticed anything... as a matter of fact the majority of the employees there seemed to be black, or some other minority.
 
jtrain609 said:
Are you guys really completely unaware of the origin of the term "ghetto?"
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Apparently. I guess more today think urban blacks when they hear the term "ghetto." Unaware that the Nazis originally built the ghettos in places like Poland for example when they relocated the Jews.
 
The Jews...the Poles.....The Irish, Italians, Jews, Blacks in the US have lived in Ghettos. I'd even go out on a limb and say a white-anglo protestant has lived in a ghetto.
 
jtrain609 said:
Are you guys really completely unaware of the origin of the term "ghetto?"
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Or the fact that AWAC has more gates in F than PDT does? LOL, I've heard the N word multiple times from white mainline workers each time referring to goings on at F and always precursored with "The Ghetto"..
 
If the case has no merit, it'll fade away. If the case has merit, they'll receive damages.
 
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