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Posted on 10/30/2007 7:21:24 PM PDT by trumandogz
Four contract workers were banned from FMC Technologies after they hung nooses at one of the firm's Houston facilities, the company announced Tuesday.
The three men and one woman also were fired from their jobs with the contractors for FMC, an oil-field services equipment manufacturer, said Maryann Seaman, FMC spokeswoman.
"FMC has zero tolerance for workplace harassment," Seaman said.
Seaman said about a month ago an employee notified company officials that he had seen a noose hanging in the FMC's Gears Road facility.
Three workers were banned from FMC after they were discovered to have been involved in placing the noose, she said.
Last week, another noose was seen hanging in the same facility, Seaman said, and another person was banned from the firm because she was involved in placing that noose.
Seaman said the company is investigating the cases. So far, she added, the firm has has not contacted law enforcement authorities, but it will do what is ever necessary once its investigation is complete.
Seaman said the incidents are especially troubling on the heels of an incident about a year ago in Jena, La., in which nooses were hung from a tree at a high school campus and racial tension erupted.
"It's certainly sad," said Yolanda Smith, executive director of the Houston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "It's taken us back to the days of the 1950s and 1960s. We have to be more cognizant of diversity. Education is the key."
Seaman said no one appears to have filed complaints related to the FMC incidents with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The number of lawsuits the EEOC filed related to nooses has dropped steadily from 10 in 2001 to two so far this year, said James Ryan, EEOC spokesman.
The EEOC recently won settlements in three harassment cases related to nooses, including one in the Houston area, Ryan said.
In May, the EEOC reached a $390,000 racial harassment litigation settlement with Pemco Aeroplex of Birmingham on behalf of a class of black employees who were subjected to racist graffiti, slurs and the display of nooses, Ryan said.
The EEOC settled a racial harassment suit in January for $600,000 against AK Steel Corp. of Butler, Pa., Ryan added, after nooses were displayed and Klu Klux Klan videos were shown in employee lounges.
In March 2006, Ryan said, the EEOC obtained more than $1 million in a case against Commercial Coating Service, Inc. of Conroe, Texas, in which a black worker was racially harassed and choked with a noose by his coworkers in a company bathroom.
Its Halloween for crying out loud what no sense humor
Hang the bastard
All the noose that’s fit to print.
Halloween or not, it is going to be difficult for these four idiots to find work.
maybe they could open a macramee factory
Perhaps this Copy Cat Crap was the intention all along!!
After all Governor Telletubbie (D.MA) Former devotee of ClintonInc.com (former EEOC Cheif) has endorsed Senator brakakakakaka (D.IL.)
Together they have entirely confuzzled the Moonbats beyond their ken (an i.q. of 10-59 required).
One can only hope that in a state of animated lunacy,
they and their ilk will start hanging themselves.
Just to prove a point , of course.
“TOGETHER... THEY CAN!!”
Two million bucks in two years. Not bad work if you can find it.
Okay...let me ask the obvious question....what color were the perps?
I don't care what color the perps were they deserved to be fired.
Hanging nooses is so two months ago.
Which had NOTHING to do with "racism". The "racism" erupted because of race baiters Sharpton and Jackson spinning the unrelated gang beating by black students on a white student into a racist motivated act. All one big fabricated LIE.
No doubt this is yet another one. Next thing you know Cowboys will be banned from swinging nooses at rodeo's because it's 'racist".
I’m really hoping there’s a statute of limitations on this sort of thing ‘cause way back in 4th grade, I got caught tying nooses into the pull-cords on the roller blinds at St. Bernard’s Elementary School....
Let’s say you own your own business and employees start hanging nooses around for unknown reasons — maybe racial and maybe not. You have black employees, black customers, and black subcontractors, all of whom you depend upon at least partly for your livelihood.
What do you do?
“All one big fabricated LIE.”
That’s why I have trouble with these tales. All motive is completely assumed. I have read a few articles about this and I can’t find one that tells the race of the noose-hangers. Peculiar.
I also don’t particularly care for one ethnic group having a special set of laws that benefit only them. There is nothing that can ever be displayed in the workplace that I could win me a suit for a million dollars. That is not jealousy but a sickening disparity of any kind of justice.
Wht would I do? I’d find out what the reason was behind it before I did anything.
Attenuated lunacy - keep it going as long as it’s working.
I can’t believe what a society of candy-assed wussies we’ve become. For frickin cryin out loud, it’s a noose! Nobody has threatened anybody. Frickin liberal cowards.
Why?
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