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Texaco is not a nice company. Recent revelations about blatant racial discrimination within the corporation as well as the destruction and suppression of evidence have prompted Jesse Jackson and other leaders to call for a nationwide boycott of Texaco. Although a discrimination suit was recently settled for a record $176.1 million, former employees of the Texas oil giant are now being prosecuted for obstruction of justice...
...media has highlighted racial discrimination at Texaco, in part because it directly affects people in America and in part because national leaders have called for a boycott. But the sins of Texaco are much older, and run much deeper, than the recent allegations of racism...
...minority-owned companies. Texaco's record so far does not inspire great faith--and some questions still need to be answered. Why did it take more than two years of legal action by six aggrieved black employees, the leak of an embarrassing tape recording and the threat of a boycott to get Texaco to live up to the fine-sounding promises in its glossy equal-opportunity brochures? Why was it so hard for black Texaco employees to be taken seriously when they complained about being called "porch monkeys" and "orangutans" by co-workers and being passed over for promotions...
Organizers of the Kennedy School of Government's orientation for newly-elected members of congress are going full speed ahead, despite speculation that Republicans will boycott the event as they...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Texaco agreed to pay $140 million in one of the largest employee race-discrimination lawsuits to date. The two-year-old lawsuit had dominated headlines for the past two weeks, and prompted calls by Jesse Jackson for a boycott of the firm, after the release of a secret recording of a meeting in which Texaco executives discussed destroying company documents relevant to the case and ridiculed black employees as "black jelly beans." Under the settlement, Texaco will pay 1,500 present and former black employees who brought suit $115 million in cash, will provide $26.1 million...