No Nooses in the Workplace! Daryle Washington IBT 350 Recology Worker Targeted For Exposing Hanging Noose Racist Incident

Submitted by solidarity on Sun, 08/23/2015 - 14:40

Daryle Washington is a Teamsters Local 350 member who used to work at Recology Corporation in San Francisco.

On December 10, 2013, a coworker named Jon Peralta picked up a noose, walked out of his stall, tightening it as he went, and dropped it in the stall of one of his black coworkers.

Even though Daryle repeatedly spoke up on behalf of his coworkers, the company only suspended Peralta for six days. Later on December 30, Peralta picked up a Jet magazine and threw it at a black coworker. This time Peralta was suspended for only 14 days. Daryle's coworkers feared for their life, but Recology did nothing.

The company refuses to fire Peralta because his mother is in a relationship with one of the managers! Instead, they retaliated against Daryle. They harrassed him, denied him promotions that he was clearly qualified for, transferred him, denied him worker's comp and forced him to continue to work alongside Jon Peralta. He suffered anxiety attacks from the stress.

Meanwhile, Daryle's union won't defend him, because Peralta is in the union too!

Recology has refused to change its policies or apologize. Daryle has sued Recology in court and the company offered a settlement, but he has refused to take it until the company agrees to publicly apologize for tolerating this behavior.

Zero tolerance for racist nooses!
Justice for Daryle Washington!

Contact: Daryle Washington Defense Committee
(415) 832-9480 / darylewashington@yahoo.com

For video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuFYf0dhVUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5PBHHR2m38

For more information:
http://sfbayview.com/2015/06/recology...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article...
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article...
For more video:
http://youtu.be/b_KDzRoocjA
https://vimeo.com/128108774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3P1z...
For more video:
http://youtu.be/b_KDzRoocjA
https://vimeo.com/128108774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3P1z...
For more information:
http://sfbayview.com/2015/06/recology...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article...
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article...
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