Case against trucking company backfires on EEOC

[Myrina]

Source: AP

"CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — They were learning to become truck drivers but wound up in a nightmare. In detailed accounts to a federal agency, dozens of female employees of one of the nation's largest trucking companies told of being propositioned, groped and even assaulted by male drivers during cross-country training rides.

"I was beaten, I was fondled, I was humiliated and I was taught nothing," one trainee, Ramona Villareal, said in a deposition.

But rather than leading to a workplace discrimination judgment, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's sexual harassment lawsuit against Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based CRST Van Expedited Inc., has backfired and put the agency on trial. The agency is coping with a court ruling that could make it harder and more expensive to pursue large discrimination cases against companies in the Midwest, if not nationwide."



Read more: http://www.indystar.com/article/20120404/BUSINESS/120404002/Case-against-trucking-company-backfires-EEOC

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Worker protections? Working WOMEN'S protections? Nah, we don't need those .... they're bad for business!!

[shcrane71]

1. Trucking, a job that seems particularly well suited for the half of the sex that has less

upper-body strength (as any man will tell women); yet women make up a fraction of drivers. Huh? Interesting considering that the pay for truckers is so much more than that of other professions that require the similar amount of education.

If systemic harassment by men is keeping women from these higher paid jobs, then one would think we would want a regulatory agency that can help alleviate discrimination. Guess not. This is America.

[Myrina]

2. This is what really caught my eye:

"The agency is coping with a court ruling that could make it harder and more expensive to pursue large discrimination cases ... "

Or in other words, bye-bye EEOC, if the Good Ol' White Boys have their way.

[nanabugg]

8. EEOC started to become the "good ole' boy's wet dream back in 200-5-2006

It became more important for the EEOC to protect the "process" rather than protect complainants.

[socialindependocrat]

3. Here you have obvious sexual harassment

and we see that the EEOC is now on the defensive?

Looks like we need another petition to get the courts to take sexual harassment seriously.

This sounds like another shot fired in the war against women!

[EC]

4. It's going to get to the point

where we'll have to handle things like this without the court if they give us no redress. I can see husband's, brothers, fathers, beating the crap outta guys molesting their wives in classes like this or other jobs where men seem to think they have the right to grope and act like pigs. If the courts won't protect, then it's going to lead to gang mentallity, we'll protect our own.

[dotymed]

5. The continued "race to the bottom."

Now, corporations and their owned politicians can prevent the courts from suing them. The EEOC is a federal agency formed to punish/prevent discrimination of workers based on their minority status.
In the current "right to work (get fired)" GOP backed environment, the corporations make all of the rules. Don't like it? "You're fired." No enforceable laws to protect the workers...sick.
"We" (like we wanted to do), should have let the "too big to fail", non-job producing, banksters and corporations be wiped out. That is free-market capitalism. Now we have the corporate take-over that "we" have financed, destroying all of our rights and treating us like property, worse than ever. Now it is legal for them to purchase all of the politicians they want.
Of course, since we didn't let them fail and then make the necessary corrections to prevent this from happening again (like FDR did) with strict regulations against corporations screwing everyone for a profit, Americans will suffer worse indignities than ever. The outcome will be the same. These corporations/banksters will fail because all they want is short term profit at the expense of the 99%.
The difference between "the great depression" and "the worse depression that only affects the 99%" is that the corporations will be in total control until the collapse of America.
My God, we have to take to the streets and stop this shit. Go OWS. Every American must join or be raped until everything collapses.

[chervilant]

6. + a gazillion, + 50 million times a gazillion!

How many times must we point out to our fellow downtroddens (aka the Hoi Polloi, the 99%): you are bent over, with your hands braced upon your knees. Don't you get it?!? You will never be free of this oppression until YOU do something to stop it! #Occupy is just the beginning of our struggle.

[Myrina]

9. Exactly. It's starting to feel like 1912 instead of 2012.

[RitchieRich]

7. Devil's Advocate....

regardless of why someone is denied proper training, it is irresponsible to have them pilot giant trucks on public roads until they are prepared correctly.

Perhaps a temporary solution would be setting up new schools or getting trained in civilized states. I know that sounds crappy. But I wouldn't expose someone I loved to that abuse for the next few decades until this gets resolved.

[madrchsod]

10. why am i not surprised....

these guys totally screwed over my friend...they never paid him for the two weeks he worked for them. the training driver got all the money the guy was owed