Midwest Contractors Fight Discrimination Charges

Some contractors in the Midwest are defending a round of civil rights charges brought by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In Milwaukee, EEOC charged in a suit filed on February 26 with the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin that Milwaukee-based contractor CG Schmidt violated federal law by retaliating against Frederick Jackson, an African-American carpenter. The suit alleges that Jackson was dismissed from his job on Oct 24, 2006, for filing a charge of racial discrimination with EEOC against his employer earlier that year.