AA workers say they face racial taunts, discrimination
Washington
BLACK American Airlines employees at Reagan National and Philadelphia International airports say they have been subjected to racial taunts and are routinely assigned unsafe equipment and the most difficult tasks.
The employees were among 80 minority workers who, through a lawyer, have written to US Attorney General Loretta Lynch seeking an investigation into their allegations against the airline. "I was told by one manager to go back out to that plantation, go back out to the cotton field. They thought it was hilarious, but I didn't think it was one bit funny," said a woman who has worked as a counter and gate agent for more than 30 years at National, which occupies a site that once was a 404-hectare plantation. "They even used the n-word."
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