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"Whites only" toilet at Georgia Pacific?
posted Monday, 12 November 2007
Quoting from this site:
By Jeannie Blaylock
First Coast News
BRUNSWICK, GA -- First Coast News has been investigating allegations that a major local company is guilty of racial discrimination.
Lisa Woods ... says for months the restroom had a sign saying, "OUT OF ORDER." She alleges her co-worker, Anthony Lee, believed the races shouldn't mix. Lee had no comment.
An independent trucker, Donald Jones, says when he went to the scaling house he saw the same "OUT OF ORDER" sign.
Jones says, "I had to go off in the woods and do what I had to do."
But Lisa Wagner, a former security guard at the scaling house, says if a white truck driver came through, "No problem, no problem at all." Whites were invited to use the toilet, Wagner says. ...
Woods ... also alleges Lee put up a cartoon at the job site showing a pregnant monkey. Woods was pregnant at the time but later miscarried.
That miscarriage, verified by medical records from Southeast Georgia Health Systems, is also part of Woods' complaints. She says the company would not let her off from work, even though medical experts recommended she "rest at home for the next several days." ...
Ms. Woods comes off in this story sounding like a malcontent and a petty troublemaker, and the company is probably justified in having fired her. If her allegations about Lee prove true, he ought to lose his job as well. This guy, Lee, may be a schmuck and a bigot, but it's a stretch to claim that his activity represents company policy.
The TV newsie who reported this story has apparently been snooping around for almost a year, looking for trouble. So it's hard to say where the line between truth and fabrication should be drawn here. I would not be unhappy to see Georgia-Pacific sue the TV station over the assertion that this matter between two employees who do not get along represents some kind of systematic racial represion by the company.
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