Posted on 12/01/2006 5:33:57 PM PST by jsk10
Coca-Cola has kept the promises it made to boost diversity after a 1999 race discrimination lawsuit, a task force concluded Friday in its final report on the lawsuit settlement.
Coke's chief executive said that, even with the case now closed, the beverage giant will keep working toward "color blindness."
The task force monitoring Coke's diversity programs issued the last of five reports to a federal court judge overseeing a settlement the company reached six years ago with minority employees who accused the company of discrimination.
Coke agreed to a $192.5 million class action settlement before the case ever went to trial.
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Fire that white boy!
I didn't realize that "color blindness" meant hiring in a department to monitor spreadsheets that calculate the percentages of each minority.
This stuff really burns me up.
I used to hire employees of a particular minority. More often than not, I had to fight or settle discrimination suits which invariably came when these folks decided to quit or were asked to leave. I've not hired any in the last 5 years and haven't had a suit since.
"Coke's chief executive said that, even with the case now closed, the beverage giant will keep working toward "color blindness.""
Wow. They still think diversity is about being "color blind". Sounds like they didn't learn crap.
Current liberal activists assert that one can of "coke" contains 13 tsps of sugar. While I can only find search engines revealing one site asserting "10 tsps" of sugar (and no link or statistical back); what is true is that sodas carry sugars which increase sugars in the bodies which can be harmful to diabetes and borderline diabetes, and those who do not tolerate a lot of sugar in one 'sitting'.
Is this suit a quasi-reparations suit? Hm.
Sadly I know someone in the midst of just such a fight. It will likely have the same outcome.
He learned the same lesson as you.
"I had to fight or settle discrimination suits which invariably came when these folks decided to quit or were asked to leave."
Wish I had a nickel every time I heard that. I used to date a woman who ran nursing temp agency or contracting service in Memphis. Every employee she had was black but that did not stop them from suing her for racial discrimination if she had to reprimand or dismiss someone. In the 6 months we dated, she was sued twice. Dismissed both times.
Really? Well, I knew Coke boosted alertness after Algebra,
so I guess anything's possible.
"Diversity" and color blindness are mutually exclusive.
I was forced to voluntarily attend "diversity" training at a company I used to work for, and that was the biggest load of malarkey I'd ever seen.
They don't say this, but the bottom line is that you can't offend anyone. Of course, some people get offended no matter what you do ("perception is everything"), so it's a no-win situation for some (non-minorities).
PC run amok.
Stupid. A company should be able to hire and promote those who they think can best do the job. Clearly whatever white execs Coke has had running it for the last century know what they are doing.
If they were actually working toward 'color blindness', they'd not pay a bit of attention to race when selecting employees. They'd hire the most qualified, not hire based on the color needed to complete the 'rainbow'.
"Coke's chief executive said that, even with the case now closed, the beverage giant will keep working toward "color blindness.""
Now they ARE guilty of racial bias.
Then again, us conservatives could never be that organized and committed to the cause of true fairness. Can we?
I want in, where's the Rev Jackass. I white, male, 60 plus, in the 1700's the family had slaves, were nice we turned them loose..I want to be white HR guy who hires the offspring of the folks we freed 225 years ago. $50K a year, and when I die keep paying me.
Not true....you can crap on white heterosexual males, and there's no recourse for them.
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