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...Graham difference. In his office in Boone, North Carolina, are artifacts not associated with his father: the half-dozen military rifles mounted on the wall. A little way down the road stands his beloved Harley-Davidson Wide Glide. Hangared at a nearby airstrip is the six-seat twin-turboprop Mitsubishi plane in which he logged 450 hours last year as a pilot. "If there's a machine or device that makes noise, goes fast and blows smoke," he has written, "I want to have one." Or at least try one out. In 1987 neighbors called the local sheriff when...
This month, fed up with Mitsubishi's stonewalling, the commission brought suit, charging that the company created "a hostile and abusive work environment" and not only failed to take appropriate action in cases where the complaints were made, but actually retaliated against the women who made them. The EEOC's suit essentially broadens the charges filed in the earlier private suit to include all female employees, past and present, who might have suffered harassment since the plant opened. That description, say EEOC investigators, could apply to more than 500 women. And under the revision of the Civil Rights...
Urging employees to speak up in defense of the company--and their jobs--Mitsubishi set up a free phone bank with numbers of local news outlets and the names, biographies and phone numbers of elected representatives. Nor was the company subtle in orchestrating the demonstration outside the EEOC offices. Workers were given a choice: they could sign up for a free round trip to Chicago (on more than 50 Mitsubishi-chartered buses), a box lunch and the approbation of their bosses--or they could report to the idled plant, clearly identifying themselves as disloyal...
Despite its protestations, Mitsubishi may have already begun to take some measures to clean up its act. A plantwide sensitivity-training program was belatedly established last year. And while managerial jobs have not been affected, the company claims it has fired 10 workers--four this year--for incidents of sexual abuse. Perhaps more important, the alarm bell has finally sounded at the Tokyo headquarters of Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Chairman Hirokazu Nakamura admitted that "there were such cases" at the Normal plant but insisted that they were dealt with properly. Nakamura also expressed concern that Americans would draw the wrong conclusions...
...Ohinouye admitted last week that his company had been slow or otherwise off base in its response to the EEOC allegations but claimed that there were "a number of misunderstandings" in those charges. He expressed a willingness to start negotiations to settle the matter, while stressing his belief that Mitsubishi had not been "particularly insensitive in responding to claims of sexual-harassment activities when compared to other companies in the business." Neither the EEOC nor lawyers for the women plaintiffs in the civil suit have heard directly from the company...