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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 05:29 PM Original message |
Court: Chicago must hire 111 black firefighters |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. What happens if they haven't kept themselves in shape enough to do the job? |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 05:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. What do you think SHOULD happen? -nt |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 05:50 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Maybe pay them a settlement but that isn't a job I would want to give just anyone. |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 06:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. They will have to go to the fire academy like any new hire. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 06:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I would think the opposite...they would be more sensitive just in case one of these guys |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 07:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Can't sue a city because the police or fire did not protect |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 10:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Spot should be open for 111 black firefighters .... whether the originals or replacements -- !! |
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LLStarks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 05:39 PM Response to Original message |
2. Fair test or not, race-based quotas are stupid. nt |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-14-11 06:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. this is not necessarily race based quota |
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Drale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
3. OOO the tea baggers are going to have a field day |
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nomorenomore08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 05:52 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Never mind that if the department hired 0 black firefighters, those same folks |
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-14-11 06:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. Here's the decision; the chief judge here is a Republican nominee |
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FLAprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
9. It's hard to say that picking at random was *intentionally* discriminatory. I would be interested in |
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-..__... (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri May-13-11 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. I don't think it will be that simple. |
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La Lioness Priyanka (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-14-11 06:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. which is why they shouldnt have used a non-valid selection measure to begin with. nt |
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