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Fired US McDonald's workers allege racial discrimination
Yahoo News ^ | 23 Jan 15 | AFP Reporter

Posted on 01/23/2015 2:54:22 PM PST by SkyPilot

A group of former McDonald's workers is suing the fast-food giant in the United States for alleged racial discrimination and sexual harassment after they were fired from several restaurants in Virginia.

According to the civil rights complaint filed Thursday, workers at franchised restaurants in the southern state of Virginia were "subjected to rampant racial and sexual harassment, committed by the restaurants' highest-ranking supervisors." The lawsuit potentially has broad implications because it contends that McDonald's is responsible for the well-being of workers at all its restaurants, even if they are franchises.

The plaintiffs, nine of whom are black and one Hispanic, allege they were fired because the restaurant, operated by a company called Soweva, wanted to "reduce the number of African-American employees and hire more white employees," the lawsuit states.

"Soweva's supervisors were blunt, telling employees that it was 'too dark' in the restaurants, and that they were going to hire different workers because they 'need to get the ghetto out of the store,'" the complaint adds.

Supervisors repeatedly complained "there are too many black people in the store," the lawsuit alleges.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; mcconalds; minorities; race
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To: nascarnation

I was just trying to recall that campaign, “365/black” or something like that?


21 posted on 01/23/2015 3:12:02 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: SkyPilot
This is nothing more than persecution of McDonald's for not raising the minimum wage. It's the PC Gestapo going after its enemies, just like the IRS and conservative PACs.

THIS is why we need smaller government. And guns.

22 posted on 01/23/2015 3:12:22 PM PST by IronJack
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To: SkyPilot

My McDonald’s is about 90% Hispanic and I don’t have any problems with the food or the service. In fact, most fast-food places around here now have about 90% Hispanic employees.


23 posted on 01/23/2015 3:12:57 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: SkyPilot

McDonalds went on a “just black tummies matter” advertising campaign not so long ago. It was blatantly racial. I think they were hiring mostly black, too.


24 posted on 01/23/2015 3:15:15 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: nascarnation

I can't stand the: i'm lovin' it slogan either. It seems as if proper spelling and punctuation were not in the equation when it was authored.

25 posted on 01/23/2015 3:16:08 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: digger48

excellent!


26 posted on 01/23/2015 3:16:36 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: armydawg505

Marylanders actually get peed off when a person points out that slavery was legal in Maryland, which is below the Mason-Dixon line.


27 posted on 01/23/2015 3:17:07 PM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: Steve_Seattle

my comment is “show me the tapes”


28 posted on 01/23/2015 3:17:22 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: wally_bert

it’s been years since I went to mcd’s.


29 posted on 01/23/2015 3:17:47 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SkyPilot

Translation: They wanted us to do our jobs.


30 posted on 01/23/2015 3:18:50 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: SkyPilot

Hey, sounds like the supervisors were just trying to embrace diversity. I thought that was supposed to be a good thing.


31 posted on 01/23/2015 3:19:11 PM PST by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: SkyPilot

I wonder if one of them was a worker in Emporia on I-95.

I was flying down I-95 and pulled into the McD’s for a large tea and three double cheese burgers.

Went through the drive through, got the order and hit the highway.

About 10 miles down the highway I opened the bag and found 2 single cheese burgers - and I had been the only car near the drive through.

And they want $15 an hour?


32 posted on 01/23/2015 3:20:48 PM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: wally_bert
I’m very picky about fast food places due to the same reasons.

I went to a Chick Fil A last month.

It was the antithesis of the McDonald's experience.

The staff were beyond friendly, the place was spotless, and Christian music was playing over the speaker in the dining area! You almost NEVER find that in a business today.

33 posted on 01/23/2015 3:20:55 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

Supervisors repeatedly complained “there are too many black people in the store,” the lawsuit alleges.

correction - “too many black people FIGHTING in the store, DESTROYING THINGS in the store,”....


34 posted on 01/23/2015 3:20:59 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SkyPilot

Customers may be afraid of someone spitting on their food.


35 posted on 01/23/2015 3:21:22 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Steve_Seattle

I don’t trust any fast-food franchise places, and even many mom-and-pop types, anymore, after reading some site where the actual employees boasted of what they did to the food in the back. The one about what they did to the vats of KFC’s coleslaw was especially disgusting. I’ve also never been able to forget, ever since I first heard of it years ago, Jesse Jackscum’s boast of spitting in white people’s food while smiling in their faces. And in connection with the recent “activism” of interrupting white people’s brunches, there were some Twitter threats by self-described black restaurant employees to spit in the food of whites.

On the whole, I’d rather make my own, or go to local places where the owners have been part of the local community for eons, and are still in the same hands/family.


36 posted on 01/23/2015 3:21:51 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: SkyPilot

Doesn’t this just seem for most urban blacks, to be the default “solution” to everything that bothers them?


37 posted on 01/23/2015 3:21:57 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SkyPilot

i went to a McDonalds in spartanburg several times. they had the ten commandments posted over the drink machines


38 posted on 01/23/2015 3:24:59 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Secret Agent Man
“too many black people FIGHTING in the store, DESTROYING THINGS in the store,”...."

I wouldn't be surprised.
39 posted on 01/23/2015 3:25:13 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: digger48

Exactly the store owner is black and is just trying to run his business as he deems necessary.


40 posted on 01/23/2015 3:25:42 PM PST by Recompennation
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