[wvns] Arab-American FedEx Employees File Complaint
MA: FOUR ARAB-AMERICANS CHARGE HARASSMENT BY FEDEX
Scott Malone
Reuters
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2007-03-05T185530Z_01_N05295236_RTRUKOC_0_US-FEDEX-DISCRIMINATION.xml
A Massachusetts state agency has ruled that a complaint by four
Arab-American men that they were harassed by managers at FedEx Corp.
-- who called at least two of them "terrorists" -- may proceed.
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination became the latest
U.S. government entity to rule that drivers at the package-delivery
company are employees and not independent contractors.
That is a question at the heart of campaigns to unionize FedEx
truckers, since the company has said that as independent contractors,
its workers are not eligible for union representation.
Kuwait-born Loay El-Dagany, 31, said on Monday he was subjected to
abusive treatment by his manager from the time he started working as a
FedEx trucker in Massachusetts in 2003.
"When I started working with FedEx, this guy, he tried to push me hard
and called me names, using words like 'terrorist,'" El-Dagany told
Reuters. "He mentioned (Al Qaeda leader Osama) bin Laden, that we may
be cousins ... Sometimes, when he doesn't like something, he'd take
one of the packages and throw it in my face and go and scream."
In addition to verbal abuse, the men charged in filings with the
Massachusetts agency that they were treated unfairly in their work
assignments.
"These drivers were assigned and reassigned with worse routes and were
intentionally given too many stops to handle," the complaint said.
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