WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's latest victory against job discrimination started with allegations of hangman's nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking warehouse in Chicago Ridge, Ill.
Four years later, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had turned the case into a major class action lawsuit. It alleged that more than 170 employees of Yellow Transportation Inc. were victims of a racially hostile work environment.
The case was settled in June for $11 million.
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