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?
