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Worker Arrests Fighting Wells Fargo: African American Firefighters Discrimination Case  

Insult To Injury, Workers Fight Wells FargoTo Keep Jobs and Suffer Arrests
with
. Keith Schribner, Pres., Local 1174 United Electrical Workers(UE)
. Leah Fried, UE Organizer

The Supreme Court Fans The Flames Of Discrimination In New Haven Firefighter Ruling

with
. Donald Day, Past NE Regional Director., Association of Professional Black Firefighters
. ReNika Moore, Associate Council NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund

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Insult To Injury, Workers Fight Wells FargoTo Keep Jobs and Suffer Arrests
with
Keith Schribner, Pres., Local 1174 United Electrical Workers(UE)
Leah Fried, UE Organizer

UE Local 1174 members and supporters from other unions
demonstrated at Wells Fargo’s Rock Island Illinois branch. Echoing the
slogan of UE members at Republic Windows during their plant
occupation, they chanted "You got bailed out; we got sold out.” Nearly
a dozen workers were arrested after they blocked a street to symbolize
how Wells Fargo is a “roadblock to recovery.” Workers are continuing
their fight to keep Quad City Die Casting open to save their jobs. The
plant is slated to close because Wells Fargo – recipient of $25 billion
in the federal banking bailout – has cut off operating credit to the company.
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The Supreme Court Fans The Flames Of Discrimination In
New Haven Firefighter Ruling
with
. Donald Day, Past NE Regional Director., Association of Professional Black Firefighters
. ReNika Moore, Associate Council NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund

When their written test for promotion in the Fire Dept. produced no successful African American candidates, the City of New Haven nullified the results. White firefighters then brought a legal challenge against the City. The challenge was defeated by an appellate court that included Judge Sotomayor, now a nominee for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. The New Haven case ultimately went up to the U.S. Supreme Court who overturned the appellate court. Justice Ginsburg in a particularly pointed dissent to the majority ruling gave historic background to New Haven’s determination reminding us that "firefighting is a profession in which the legacy of racial discrimination casts an especially long shadow."

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