Well, well, well…what do we have here? The New York Times is being sued for treating employees differently based on race? You mean the white employees are fed up with skin color preferences? No. Just the same old news.
Despite liberals’ obsession with this, some employees feel otherwise. From the National News:
Nine New York Times employees, including a Jewish man, are charging that they were subjected to racial and religious discrimination at the paper’s Edison, N.J., printing plant.Their lawsuit, filed in Middlesex County Superior Court on Nov. 3, includes complaints that supervisors aimed racial and religious epithets at employees — or ignored such epithets coming from others — and that Hispanic, black, and Jewish employees were denied seniority rights, promotions and pay scales commensurate with their years of service as well as plum assignments that would have enabled them to pick up overtime pay.
The newspaper maintains “a hostile and pervasive work environment” based upon “the widespread use of racial and religious epithets” and the “disparate treatment” of employees “based upon race, color, national origin, and religion,” according to the 16-page complaint.
The Times management has denied the allegations.
The Jewish plaintiff is Harvey Alpert, a 53-year-old resident of Marlboro, N.J., who began working at the Edison plant as a chauffeur in 1977 and is now a floorman.
The complaint alleges that, like the other men bringing the suit, Alpert was “subjected to very offensive epithets” that included being addressed by a colleague as “a (expletive) fat Jew Bastard.” The same colleague is alleged to have said “I hate that Jew bastard. I want to kill him.”(Source)
For more information, go to Michelle Malkin’s blog.
Developing…
Update: Does it make a difference that racism is alleged by the NYT’s printing plant employees rather than its newsroom employees? Are they careful to be politically correct only in high-visibility positions?
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Is this another crack in the foundation of the Old Media? It seems so. First Lying Dan’s memos, then the fake “Iraq explosives” story during the election, now this.
Much as fallen people want to deny human nature and claim that they are better, more tolerant, more diverse than other people, their deep-seated envies, jealousies, hatreds, scorns, and condescensions come out, don’t they? Liberals think they’re better people, but they are still in desperate need of redemption–like us all.
Steve Bragg
DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS
I’ll bet some people are going to be confusing the editorial and business departments. Something tells me the business / printing department is run just like any other factory in this country.
How awful that people would have to work in that kind of environment. I hope they win their case if its’ all true.
Don’t insult our intelligence, man. We know the difference between a printing plant and the news room. IT’S STILL THE NEW YORK TIMES!
It shouldn’t make a difference whether it’s by printing plant employees or by those in the newsroom. The New York Times is a big corporation. If they are “committed to diversity”, it’s not a true commitment if they only practice it in the newsroom. Furthermore, as Michelle Malkin points out in her blog, “The Times management has denied the allegations.”
-Grace
“Despite liberals’ obsession with this”
LaShawn – I think you point out the problem right off the bat – Liberals are obsessed with promoting themselves as embracing tolerance and diversity, but their actions (or lack of) often tell a different story. Hope these guys win.
Watching the old grey lady squirm, I’m loving it. Bwaahahaha
Hoisted by their own petard
and
reap what you have sown
leap to mind…
‘If they are “committed to diversity”, it’s not a true commitment if they only practice it in the newsroom.’
I’d say whatever liberalism the times has probably ends in the newsroom, and doesnn’t make it to the factory floor. They are a profit seeking corporation.
which makes them phony as everyone has seen them to be in the first place.
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