I try to take a day off so that I can do my real job, but then I find news like this. From the
Tampa Bay Business Journal:
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity said it filed a lawsuit Thursday against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. alleging that the retail giant permitted one of its female associates to be sexually harassed by an assistant manager at Wal-Mart's Super Center store in Bradenton.
EEOC said it filed the suit under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida after first attempting to reach a voluntary prelitigation settlement. The agency said this is the second in the past year alleging sexual harassment at the same store of the Bentonville, Ark.-based chain.
Imagine how bad it would have to be there for George W. Bush's EEOC to sue them twice in one year?
This development needs to be seen in the context of the massive class action gender discrimination suit that is currently going on against Wal-Mart. Journalist Liza Featherstone discusses it
here (or better yet, buy her book
here). More information about Wal-Mart's culture of sexism is available
here, the Wal-Mart vs. Women home page.
JR