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...affirmative action based on race, gender or ethnicity in the state is illegal, whether in the public sector, education or employment. It seems California residents acted a little prematurely; this country still has racial barriers to overcome. Last Friday, a mere two weeks after Prop. 209 passed, Texaco Inc. agreed to pay $140 million, the largest settlement ever in a racial discrimination case, on behalf of all its minority employees...
Only a few of the employees actually raised the suit, complaining of a glass ceiling within the company. However, the settlement addressed all of the minority employees in the company, giving them all 10 percent pay raises. Texaco has also instituted a task force which will focus on minority hiring and promoting practices...
...uproar now, when the suit had been pending for more than two years? Well, a few weeks ago, the government and the public discovered that one senior executive had tape-recorded a meeting. On the tape, the senior executives of Texaco made racially disparaging comments and admitted that they promoted only white employees into the highest ranks. They also discussed shredding documents containing the secret evaluations based on race which were demanded in the case, a point the Justice Department will deal with later...
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...
...case of Texaco is only anomalous because the statements and actions of its racist top brass are now public knowledge. As journalist Ellis Cose proved in The Rage of a Privileged Class, black employees throughout corporate America often must struggle against subtle glass ceilings as well as outright racial hostility. The solution to this dilemma may well be more--not less--affirmative action. Without explicit and enforced preference programs, black advancement may be stifled at token levels...