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Walgreen Denies Promotions Based on Race, U.S. Says
Forbes ^ | 3/7/2007 | Evelyn M. Rusli

Posted on 03/07/2007 5:06:59 PM PST by Deek1969

Walgreen, America’s largest drugstore retailer, may call itself “the pharmacy America trusts,” but at least one federal commission would like to disagree.

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Walgreens on Wednesday afternoon, claiming that the company discriminated against thousands of African American employees by denying promotions and assigning workers to low-performing stores.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: eeoc; racism; walgreen

1 posted on 03/07/2007 5:07:00 PM PST by Deek1969
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To: Deek1969

I doubt it.


2 posted on 03/07/2007 5:08:10 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: Deek1969

And this is a federal jurisdictional issue because?


3 posted on 03/07/2007 5:08:29 PM PST by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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To: Deek1969
Sure isn't happening around here.

The chief pharmacist, two of his assistants and one of the assistant managers in our local Walgreens are all black. They do good work, I wouldn't care if they were purple with green spots.

4 posted on 03/07/2007 5:14:13 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Deek1969
Neeley said the EEOC found statistical and anecdotal evidence that African American managers, assistant managers and pharmacists were being assigned to low-performing areas and denied promotions because of Walgreens’ “subjective promotion practices,” he said.

What do you bet that the anecdotal evidence is apocryphal, and the statistics are crap?

5 posted on 03/07/2007 5:14:57 PM PST by Minn
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To: Deek1969

Just the socialists again attacking capitalism.


6 posted on 03/07/2007 5:29:37 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Deek1969

I'm thinking the employees probably lived in the area of stores in low performing areas. In which case they should sue their parents or real estate agents.


7 posted on 03/07/2007 5:31:12 PM PST by Bob J (RIGHTALK.com...a conservative alternative to NPR!)
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To: Deek1969
I just had the most awful experience with a drive thru Walgreen's pharmacist.

It took longer, four hours vs ten minutes down the street.

It cost more, almost double (than down the street).

The pharmacist was a jerk.

Wasn't there a scandal at Walgreen's about pharmacist making outlandish remarks on patient's files?

I was a fool to go there in the first place.

8 posted on 03/07/2007 5:33:19 PM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Deek1969
And yet the EEOC does nothing while the Federal Government discriminates against citizens by race.

The DHS will typically make a white male wait up to three years for placement at a GS5 level whereas a resident alien with little to no English speaking ability gets offered a job within 4 months of application, EVEN THOUGH THEY CAN'T PASS THE BACKGROUND TO DO THE JOB, just so long as he has the right color skin or is a woman. And they enter as a GS9.

And despite the tag line, that's NO joke.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

9 posted on 03/07/2007 5:34:35 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: AnAmericanMother
I wouldn't care if they were purple with green spots.

I would!

10 posted on 03/07/2007 5:55:09 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
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To: AnAmericanMother
I wouldn't care if they were purple with green spots.

If my pharmacist was purple with green spots I would worry about if they really were purple with green spots or I just saw them that way. One of us has some bad drugs.

11 posted on 03/07/2007 6:01:54 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I just can't say Democrat with out the ick)
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To: ThomasThomas; operation clinton cleanup
Hey, they could be "Green and Purple Spotted Wandering Jews". . . .


12 posted on 03/07/2007 6:12:09 PM PST by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: Deek1969

I wonder what politics are going on behind this. Is this a very common thing for the EEOC to do? Carteroid/Clintonite politicians?


13 posted on 03/12/2007 6:54:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: HiTech RedNeck

At the risk of exposing my paranoia, could this simply be politics by liberal bureaucrats wanting race to have a higher profile during an election season (albeit a premature one)?


14 posted on 03/12/2007 7:01:46 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there)
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