A federal jury found Wednesday that North Carolina's transportation department permitted a racially hostile workplace when a white employee hung a noose in a maintenance shop, but it won't have to pay damages to the black workers who sued. The plaintiffs said they had proved their point and that money wasn't the object. "I don't consider it a victory for either side," the transportation department's personnel director said. "From my perspective, I'm sorry we had to be here."
May 20, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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North Carolina’s transportation department allowed a racially hostile workplace but won’t have to pay damages to black workers who sued after a white co-worker hung a noose in a maintenance shop, a federal jury decided Wednesday.
Seven black workers alleged in the civil rights suit that white supervisors did nothing about the situation, even after learning of the noose. They said the rope remained on display for 35 days in 2002 beginning Feb. 1, the start of Black History Month.
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