Discrimination victims will split $1.7 million, EEOC says
A group of sheet metal workers will split almost $1.7 million as part of a racial discrimination lawsuit settlement reached with a New Jersey union and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The commission’s decades-old lawsuit alleged that Sheet Metal Workers Local 25 and its apprentice school favored white workers in hiring and HVAC construction assignments over African American and Hispanic union members from April 1991 through 2002.