2887 (LAK)) was filed initially in 1971 in the U.S. Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers' Int'l Ass'n, et al., Case No. This settlement supplements a 2008 settlement of $6.2 million that covered back pay claims from Januthrough March 31, 1991. The current settlement covers claims of work-hour disparities based on race for the 15-year period between Apand June 30, 2006. Over the 44-year history of this case, the federal district court issued a number of rulings that Local 28 discriminated against non-white journeypersons on the basis of race, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A hearing is set for July 14 for the court to consider approving the proposed settlement. The settlement was achieved after extensive negotiations with the union by the EEOC, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the City of New York, and a class of black and Hispanic union members represented by Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and others, the agency announced today. Pursuant to the settlement, it is estimated that the union will pay approximately $12.7 million over the next five years and provide substantial remedial relief to partially resolve claims made against the union by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, the trade union for sheet metal journeypersons in New York City, has agreed to create a back pay fund for a group of minority sheet metal workers in partial settlement of race discrimination claims against the local union.

NEW YORK - Subject to approval by the U.S. “The American landscape will never look the same to readers of this important book” (Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), as Rothstein?s invaluable examination shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past.EEOC and Others Charged Local 28 with Discriminating Against Black and Hispanic Workers for Many Years Yet recent outbursts of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, and Minneapolis show us precisely how the legacy of these earlier eras contributes to persistent racial unrest. federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation.' ?William Julius Wilson - de factoThrough extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as 'brilliant' ( - The Death and Life of Great American CitiesThe Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. 'Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how.

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