This is not the first time UPS has faced these types of allegations, as similar complaints have been made by employees working in facilities nationwide.
United Parcel Service trucks are parked at the UPS sorting facility near Toronto in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, in December 2009. By Allyson Chiu Allyson Chiu Reporter Email Bio Follow March 14 at 6:04 AM Nearly 20 current and former UPS workers sued the package delivery company on Wednesday, alleging it “enabled, tolerated, and purposefully promoted and encouraged a culture of racism and racially discriminatory conduct to take root” at a distribution center in Maumee, Ohio.
“African-American employees come to work each day not knowing whether a racist comment or conduct will confront them, being concerned that smirking or laughing white employees are ridiculing them because of their race, and walking on eggshells to avoid triggering a problem,” the lawsuit said. Dean Foust, a UPS spokesman, told The Washington Post in a statement late Wednesday that the company “has strict policies against harassment and discrimination.”
The 46-page lawsuit filed this week painted a similarly troubling picture of life for black employees at the Maumee UPS facility. The suit also detailed the contents of a group text message conversation from July 2016, in which white employees made comments such as, “If you feel down and out, the noose is loose” and “Like Clint Eastwood said, ‘Hang ‘em High.’” The messages were reported to management, but no disciplinary action was taken, the suit alleges.
Given the number of reports of these types of incidents and the alleged responses by management, the lawsuit accused UPS of taking actions that “promoted and tolerated an atmosphere of racism in which individual employees feel free to display overt racial biases through conduct.”
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