City must hire 111 bypassed black firefighter candidates, court rules

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 13, 2011 | Fran Spielman

[ml/nj]

It's long past time for tolerating Courts that order money to be spent. Spending is the job of legislatures.

ML/NJ

[gaijin]

Dept of Ag “Black Farmer Suit”

There were allegations loans had been delayed to black farmers. Problem for the class action lowyaz was there were only 600 or so black farmers in the country; class action lawyers get a biiiig pay day only if there are tons of claimants, right? So they advertised, and told responding blacks that if they only had a POTTED plant then they were a WOULD-BE farmer; a person who would have been a farmer, but for the discriminatory lending policies of the Dept of Ag.

So the the lowyzaz boosted the number of black farmers to 100,000, and the class action attorneys collected 10 million dollars a piece.

Nice, huh?

Almost all of those “black farmers” collected 50,000$ or more.

[Bruinator]

“The city gave a test back in 1995 that did not measure the abillity to be a firefighter. It made it more than six times more likely that white applicants would be hired rather than African-Americans with no job-related justification.”

I would like to see one of these biased tests.

[Trajan88]

During the telecom melt-down in the late 90s / early 00s (lost my career in '02), I tried to get into pharma or medical device sales... I couldn't get an interview.

So based on this fireman ruling, when will Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott, etc. give me my retroactive pay / 401[k] lump sum contribution?

Tick, tock, tick, tock... I'm waiting!

[TigersEye]

Will that affect property insurance rates?

[Atlas Sneezed]

The city gave a test back in 1995 that did not measure the abillity to be a firefighter. It made it more than six times more likely that white applicants would be hired rather than African-Americans with no job-related justification.

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So they gave an intelligence test.

Is there any important job where being intelligent isn’t an advantage?

[Hot Tabasco]

“The city gave a test back in 1995 that did not measure the abillity to be a firefighter. It made it more than six times more likely that white applicants would be hired rather than African-Americans with no job-related justification. Nothing about getting a high score on that test predicted anything about whether you’d be a superior firefighter.”

Had an appropriate test been given, it probably would have resulted in the same outcome..........

With that being said, there's no mention of what the payout to the attorneys was............

[Gene Eric]

>> The can’t pass the test because they can’t read.

No doubt a product of basic K12 eduction.

A better solution to improving results should be applied to public education.

I wonder how graduates of charter schools performed.