Posted on 04/29/2016 3:09:55 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Two women filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday against The New York Times, its chief executive and its chief revenue officer, saying that the company “has been engaging in deplorable discrimination.”
In the lawsuit, Ernestine Grant and Marjorie Walker, both black women in their 60s employed in the advertising department at The Times, contend that the workplace under Mark Thompson, the chief executive, “has become an environment rife with discrimination based on age, race and gender.”
A spokeswoman for The Times called the suit “entirely without merit” and said “we intend to fight it vigorously in court.’’
The women are seeking class-action status for the lawsuit. Ms. Grant has been employed at The Times for 16 years, and Ms. Walker for eight years. Both are listed in the company directory as account managers.
“Unbeknownst to the world at large, not only does The Times have an ideal customer (young, white, wealthy), but also an ideal staffer (young, white, unencumbered with a family) to draw that purported ideal customer,” the lawsuit says.
The suit also contends that the plaintiffs “have experienced discrimination, and were retaliated against, when they complained about such discrimination.”
In the suit, which was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, the women say that, when she joined The Times in 2013, Meredith Levien, now the company’s executive vice president and chief revenue officer, “made it very clear that she was looking for a very particular work force, one that was filled with ‘fresh faces,’ i.e., younger employees without families, and who were white.” The suit also contends that Ms. Levien made references “to the need for employees to be ‘people who look like the people we are selling to’ and even going so far as to say ‘this isn’t what our sales team should look like.’”
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Left-wing War-on-Wymyn-of-color-and-age.
This kinda reminds me of the “bloodshed” that occurs when AIDS “activists” face off against animal rights “advocates”.Great,great stuff.
LOL! I knew someone would make a gif. out of that one. Perfect!
This should be thrown out of court....it’s the NYTs for heaven’s sake!!!
Hillary has huge negatives as well.
Rasmussen has it at 38% vs 38% as of this morning.
It is bad for Hillaty now. Debates would not work in her favor. She has potential health problems. Then there is always the email issue.
We need a candidate that people can get excited about. I have come to the conclusion, much to my regret, that it can’t be Cruz. Say what you will about Trump, but he has fired up a lot of people. I haven’t seen anything like that on the Republican side since Reagan.
Not sure if this is the right thread, but I’m in broad agreement with your last. :-)
New York Times: No Political Conservatives Allowed.
Love it.The Times hoisted on their own petard.
This is coming to every company in America that uses only merit for promotions; they will all be required to have top offices that “look like America”. My company promoted some tokens to stave off these lawsuits, and the rest of us simply cut our hours back to match those of the new “stars” (the bare minimum to qualify as “full-time”). I don’t make a lot of money, but I’ve never made so much in so few hours before in my life.
Possibly true but hard to prove.
That GIF will live forever on the internet.
Ignorant, loud, fat, and ugly is no way to go through life.
In some ways I feel sorry for her as she has been completely brainwashed by her parents, teachers, media, and professors. She is a dupe - the creation of others.
Leftists cannot be racist or sexist or any other X-ist, because they are so smart and caaaaring.
Go girls!
Exactly!
Hate the NYT but hope they kick these peoples ass in court!
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