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Quaker Oats Fights Rehiring Worker Accused Of Racist Taunt
Law360 (May 11, 2021, 7:10 PM EDT) Quaker Oats has asked an Illinois federal judge to reverse an arbitration award requiring it to rehire a worker accused of making a racist comment about former President Barack Obama, saying the arbitrator overstepped his authority and issued an order that violates public policy against racial discrimination.
In a lawsuit filed Monday, Quaker Oats Manufacturing LLC contested arbitrator James Robert Cox s February award requiring it to rehire and give back pay to Bakery Confectionary Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 347-G member Robert Craft, whom the company accused of making racist comments before work.
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Bakers Union Cost Frito-Lay Worker His Severance, Suit Says
Law360 (January 11, 2021, 8:51 PM EST) A Bakery, Confectionary & Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union local discriminated against and failed to represent a Frito-Lay Inc. worker by not showing him documents that would have convinced him to accept a severance package, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Kansas federal court.
In the lawsuit against Bakery, Confectionary & Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 218, Anthony Hampton alleges the union sat on documents it received from Frito-Lay that showed two of his colleagues contradicted his recollection of a workplace spat that led to his firing, causing him to reject a severance package Frito-Lay offered..