November 20, 2024
A freight railroad company defeated a Black former locomotive engineer's lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully fired for taking time off to care for his sick son, with an Illinois federal judge ruling Wednesday he was let go for repeated attendance policy violations, not his race.
November 10, 2022
An Illinois federal judge refused to throw out a Black railway employee's claim that he had enough evidence to show he was unlawfully fired for taking time off to care for a sick child, but shut down his claim that the railway violated its collective bargaining agreement.