Feds Accuse Nike of Discrimination Against White Workers, EEOC investigation orchestrated by Stephen Miller

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Feds Accuse Nike of Discrimination Against White Workers
The EEOC has opened an investigation into the company


The federal agency for protecting workers' civil rights revealed Wednesday that it is investigating sportswear giant Nike for allegedly discriminating against white employees through its diversity policies, the AP reports. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission disclosed the investigation in a motion filed in Missouri federal court demanding that Nike fully comply with a subpoena for information. The EEOC sought the company's criteria for selecting employees for layoffs, how it tracks and uses worker race and ethnicity data, and information about programs which allegedly provided race-restricted mentoring, leadership, or career development opportunities, according to court documents.



In a statement, Nike said the company has worked to cooperate with the EEOC and the subpoena "feels like a surprising and unusual escalation." "We have shared thousands of pages of information and detailed written responses to the EEOC's inquiry and are in the process of providing additional information," Nike said in a statement sent to the AP. EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas has moved swiftly to target diversity and inclusion policies that she has long criticized as potentially discriminatory, tightly aligning the agency with one of President Trump's top priorities. Nike appears to be the highest profile company the EEOC has targeted with a publicly confirmed, formal anti-DEI investigation. In November, the EEOC issued a similar subpoena against financial services provider Northwestern Mutual.


The disclosure comes two months after Lucas posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work. The post urged eligible workers to reach out to the agency "as soon as possible" and referred users to the agency's fact sheet on DEI-related discrimination. The investigation against Nike, however, does not stem from any worker complaint against the company. Rather, Lucas filed her own complaint in May 2024 through a more rarely used tool known as a commissioner's charge, according to the court documents. Her charge came just months after America First Legal, a conservative legal group founded by top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, sent the EEOC a letter outlining complaints against Nike and urging the agency to file a commissioner's charge.





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[Bettie]

1. So, we're moving toward

companies only being allowed to hire white men...SMH.

I thought we were moving forward overall, guess I was dead wrong.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. The EEOC is no longer processing discrimination claims by POC or women, so yeah

[kerouac2]

3. They are relentless and brazen

It is truly amazing how they are able to do so many terrible things all at the same time. They're efficiency is no doubt helped by their lack of morals and humanity.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. That and a lot of complicity by many republicans

Y

[haele]

4. Okay, so a long-time rather mediocre white employee who often takes off early,

Talks sports and "his hobbies" all the time and turns in work that often needs to be checked, but knows the boss by name and just does enough not to be let go at layoffs is somehow more qualified than the equally credentialed woman or minority worker who will make the effort to come in early or stay late to make deadlines, produces work that doesn't need to be checked, and only occasionally jokes or chats with co worker.

You know, the average "other" people who have historically had to work at least a third again if not twice as hard to get the same recognition as the normal average white dude.
Because physically fit White Males are still the stereotype for the normal successful US citizen; former Boy Scout, optimal value worker, and head of household.

[CousinIT]

6. The complaint of those who are losing privilege is often rooted in the fear of a level playing field

Whiners. Privileged whiners. I can't view them in any other way.