November 06, 2024
A New York federal judge rejected the latest bid from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and an Ironworkers local for approval of a deal to end a decades-old race bias suit, finding Wednesday they still couldn't provide data showing racial hiring disparities had been eliminated.
December 16, 2021
A New York federal judge refused a request by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and an Ironworkers local to wrap up decades-old racial bias litigation, saying he needs more proof the union has ceased discriminating against Black and Hispanic members.
January 06, 2021
A special master has urged a New York federal judge to reject the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's proposal to end a decades-old suit alleging a New York trade union and apprenticeship program discriminated against Black and Hispanic workers, saying the deal paid only "lip service" to the suit's goal.
November 20, 2020
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is ready to close a nearly 50-year-old bias suit alleging a New York trade union and an apprenticeship program excluded Black and Hispanic workers, telling a federal judge that the diversity of the organizations' membership and leadership had improved.