Word: units
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...used, will likely drop his complaint with the commission and file suit against the University in Middlesex County Superior Court, his lawyer, Richard Spicer, said yesterday. Stephen G. McCombe, who is blamed in Marshall's report for contributing to a false perception of discrimination in the guard unit, is also likely to file some sort of legal action soon, Spicer said...
Whatever the decision, the guards have vowed to fight their cases until they win what they believe to be justice. This chapter of controversy in the guard unit, it seems, may have only just begun...
Current guard Steven Thompson, who is Black, had complained that he received a three day suspension and final warning for sleeping while a white guard got only a written warning for the same offense. Management of the unit had argued that Thompson deserved a more severe punishment because he had intended to sleep...
...Peter Skillman, a 20-year veteran of the unit, said yesterday that Dowling and McCombe were friendly up until the time McCombe became a union steward. Skillman said that, when he briefly served as a supervisor in 1982, Dowling tried to get McCombe a job in the unit, but Police Capt. George Walsh rejected the request...
...report also tells the story of Charles Crockett, a Black guard who retired from the guard unit in 1990. Crockett said he was not contacted for an interview, and alleged that the part of the report dealing with his story is in error...