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Board Vote Puts System At Odds
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had been handled In the past.
■ When asked his opinion at the
board meeting last week. Relic
agreed With Campbell and Hoge-
wood concerning denying the
Warehouse workers a hearing
before the board. He said then,
'The path the complaint ulti
mately took was EEOC. Whatev
er was being done In the Internal
itEO process then changed. Once
the EEOC decision was made
then that Indeed became binding
upon us. It brought us to the deci
sion of waiting for EEOC."
• Later, It wa^ learned that Relic
disregarded this stance In favor
of, an opposite one In another
sl|nllar case; this one Involving
4 white employee. The white
CMS employee has a case being
reviewed by both the EEO office
4nd the EEOC and In this In
stance Relic has advised that the
Internal Investigation proceed.
Relic has not responded to at
tempts to have him clarify his
position on this matter.
; Neither Hogewood or Campbell
had discussed with Johnson the
facts surrounding the warehouse
workers complaints or the EEO
policies before making the deci
sion to deny the employees a
hearing.
■They also clouded the facts In
presentation to the school board
rnembers last week.
First, It was never clearly re
lated to the board members that
CMS EEO policy does not pro
hibit complainants from going
outside the Internal process to
have grievances heard by the
EEOC.
Secondly, Hogewood, Camp
bell and Relic, throughout the
meeting, referred to the ware
house employees as three per
sons. In fact there are eleven
complainants In this Issue.
Also, Campbell told board
members If they decided to hear
the case of the warehouse work
ers, they would then have to en
gage In a fact-finding mission.
"There Is no record of the com
plaints," Campbell related to the
board. However, the facts sur
rounding the Issue had been un
covered and documented by the
school’s EEO office during an hi-
temal Investigation held be
tween February and June 1988.
Fourth, Hogewood repeatedly
told board members that no de
cision had been reached from
the Internal Investigation,
when. In fact, a decision had
been reached by the school sys
tem's EEO office. The decision
cited racial discrimination. Rec
ommendations for rectifying
the situation were forwarded to
the superintendent and the
warehouse employees' supervis
or in June 1988.
The recommendations were
never acted upon.
School board member Griffin
who, along with George Battle
and Joe Martin, voted to hear
the employees complaints said
that Hogewood's, Campbell's and
Relic's double talk and conflict
ing statements aU point to overt.
Institutional discrimination.
"Our responsibility Is to hear
truth," Griffin said, "not legal
mumble jumble. We are here to
make fair, equitable decision re
garding employment practices."
Griffin said the warehouse
workers were blamed for follow
ing the system and Hogewood
and Campbell offered "flimsy ex
cuses" for not hearing the issue.
"It's denial, denial, denial, ex
cuse, excuse, excuse," said Grif
fin.
BlUy Roddey, one of the com
plaining warehouse employees
says Campbell "misconstrued
the case" before the board. "He
continued to say we were trying
to appeal the EEOC decision
back to the school board," point
ed out Roddey, "that was not the
case. We were app>ealing the Inac
tion of the school system con
cerning the discrimination
charges."
Roddey, who has been em
ployed with CMS for five years,
said he Initially felt he and his
co-workers would be treated
fairly by the system and the
board. Now he admits to being
puzzled as to the system's reac
tion.
Roddey understands that his
case was the first case handled
In this manner. 'They made an
exception of our case and we like
to know why," he said.
Roddey has written another
letter to Hogewood requesting a
second appeal before the board.
Martin Backs Appeal Of Black Workers
Continued From Page lA.
He recommended that the
complalnEtnts work through the
school s3rstem's channels to re
solve the case. In addition,
Hogewood said schools' attor
ney Hugh Campbell advised
him that the complaint had not
been concluded by EEOC, thus
voiding the school board's role.
Martin didn't agree with that
assessment, saying the board
should be responsible for hear
ing an appeal and determining
the outcome.
•With the board's vote putting
the worker's appeal on hold,
Martin said there Is little
South African
Vendors
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the right to try their hand at eco-
nonilc development -without gov
ernment interference.
"If we are given a right to earn a
living, that would give us an eco
nomic base to compete with our
white counterparts," he said.
As blacks become more em
powered economically, the day
will come when the government
can't deny their push for human
and cMl rights.
"A master and slave cannot ne
gotiate to decide when to free the
slave," Ma-vundla said. "Having an
economic base will consolidate
the power of the black commu
nity."
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will meet on Sunday, May 21,
7:30 p.m. at First Baptist
Church-West on Oaklawn Ave,
For more information, contact
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chance for a reprieve.
"They'll have to come up with
something that causes people
to change their minds," he said.
'You can't make the board have
an appeeJ If It votes not to."
Although six white board
members voted to uphold Hoge
wood's decision, Martin said
that doesn't translate Into In
sensibility of discrimination In
the school system.
"1 don't think that's true," he
said. "I don't think that Ashley
Hogewood...(or anyone else) Is
Insensitive. On the other hand, I
don't think this makes the three
of us more sensitive."
The board's decision, Martin
asserted. Is a case of people hav
ing differing views of a difficult
subject.
"Reasonable people can look
at a set of circumstances and
come up -with a different conclu
sion," he said. "I honestly think
the majority thought the case
was concluded by EEOC."
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In the letter the black warehouse
employees state that they want
to "clear up the misunderstand
ing that was allowed to develop."
Roddey now sa)rs, 'We Intend to
see this thing resolved. We In
tend to stick it out
'We are seeking justice. We
know that's a hard job for
blacks. While our counterparts
(whites) get (justice) freely, we
have to start a commotion to get
our rights."
Hogewood said Tuesday that he
does not know the "precise stat
us" of the employees' complaint.
"I have consulted with the super
intendent and the matter has
not been concluded."
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