Michigan trucking company had segregated bathrooms, workers endured racial slurs: lawsuit
NY Post
Nine former employees of a Michigan trucking company claim they were forced to use minority-only bathrooms even as they were subjected to racist taunts and harassment — including finding the letters “KKK” scrawled on a door and slurs such as the N-word, “beaners,” and “porch monkeys,” according to a federal lawsuit.
Workers at the Lake Orion, Mich.-based Environmental Wood Solutions claimed in a lawsuit filed in the US Eastern District of Michigan that they were forced to use segregated bathrooms.
One of the plaintiffs, Darryl Morgan, a 57-year-old black man from Fraser, Mich., said he was paid less to drive trucks than his white counterparts.
Morgan alleged in court documents that he was subjected to racial harassment including “frequent and open use of the” N-word as well as being referred to as a “forest monkey.”
According to the court documents, Morgan observed a note left on the communal microwave by a white colleague which read “[N-words] will be [N-words].”
Another plaintiff, Chicquita Gillette, 48, of Harper Woods, Mich., is the widow of Jesus Gillette, who died last summer of a massive heart attack, according to the Detroit Free Press.
