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- From: johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.170036.1548@microsoft.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 17:00:36 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- Distribution: usa
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- In article Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks) writes:
- | >>> And can you name this company or companies which won't hire anyone because
- | >>> they're Blak? I certainly wouldn't want to have dealings with them.
- |
- | >1. Union seniority rules
- |
- | Could you explain how giving a Blak worker with 20 years service
- | preferences over a Caucasian worker with 5 years serivce benefits the
- | Caucasian worker?
-
- Wrong question. Given that unions and companies actively discriminated
- in the past, and thus prevented qualified blacks from obtaining a job
- in the first place, Union seniority rules perpetuate the inequity.
- This is especially true where overall employeement in that field is
- falling.
-
- Further, union seniority rules directly refute the principle of
- merit -- that the best person should get the job. And if you are
- not *really* picking the most qualified person for the job what
- the hell are you doing complaining about AA?
-
- It is worth noting that the federal law mandating 'prevailing'
- (ie Union) wages at federal projects was passed by a NY lawmaker
- after a southern company, using black labor, obtained a contract
- to build a prison. This one law continues to discriminate against
- firms willing to hire/train minorities while driving up public
- costs (some say double). Sorry I don't rememeber the laws name.
-
- That was fun.
-
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- My comments are my own. They are independent and unrelated to the
- views of my company , relatives or elected representatives.
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