Nucor employees awarded $200,000.00 each

[Im a RICH Black man]

Published Nov. 4, 2009
Six workers at a Nucor Corp. steel plant in Arkansas have been awarded $200,000 each for compensatory and punitive damages after a jury found the company guilty of racial hostility toward black employees.
The case bears a striking resemblance to a class-action lawsuit filed by workers at the company’s Berkeley County plant earlier this year.
A jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas unanimously determined that the Charlotte, N.C.-based company is guilty of racial hostility against black employees.
The jury found Nucor guilty of supervisor racial hostility and co-worker racial hostility at its Blytheville, Ark., plant, based in part on the acts of Dan DiMicco, who is currently the CEO of Nucor. DiMicco was the general manager of the Blytheville plant at the time that many of the racial offenses occurred, the court said. The six plaintiffs were each granted $100,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 in punitive damages, for a total of $1.2 Million.
Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, the Birmingham, Ala., law firm that represented the plaintiffs in Arkansas, is also representing workers in the case in South Carolina. Derfner Altman & Wilborn of Charleston is assisting the Birmingham firm on the case.
“Given what the six Arkansas plaintiffs had to endure since their suit was filed in 2003 — not to mention the indignities they suffered which led to the case in the first place — any one of them will tell you this victory is about a lot more than money,” lead attorney Robert L. Wiggins Jr. said in a statement.“In the bigger picture, it’s about getting Nucor to treat its black employees with the same decency and respect as they give other employees.”
Racial acts presented as evidence included lynching re-enactments, racial slurs broadcast over the plant’s radio system, portrayals of black employees as monkeys and a variety of other racial insults. Nucor also sold items bearing confederate flags and the Nucor logo in its company store.
All current or former black employees of the Nucor Berkeley plant in South Carolina since Dec. 8, 1999, are now part of a class-action suit, Brown v. Nucor, which will be tried in Charleston. Soon after the class-action status was approved for the lawsuit, the company said it has been the target of overeager attorneys.

[aftermarket]

this is bullshit the confedrant flag is history not just bad . its alright for the blacks to have a racist like louis faracan and wear his t shirts to work . f---k all of you n-----rs it always about how the whites are wrong . hell i cant get a free down payment on a house or drive a cad. and draw food stamps its all bull s--- t as always

[Couterflicker]

I think its great they won. But to tell the truth if you dont work for nucor the employees consider you shit anyways that is whites, blacks,and anyone else. Maybe this will wake up nucor and see the light on how nucor employees treat, other contractors, temps, and other employees from other factories. This is only the beginning for workers, we need to keep fighting and one day rights for everyone will have a say. Maybe the friends uncles, brothers, son, daughters, and so on with stop one day.

[aftermarket]

that flag does not hurt any one its history . its not all about rights hell we have no rights any more the blame it all on whites . history tell us that their tribes sold them to the slave ships . i didnt have anything to do with it . but i would damn sure give a one way ticket back for them. they have to call there selves african americans . not americans . we dont have german americans or jewish or polish . and history also tells us alot came from the indies not africa

[handsome one]

For one thing it was do-rags with the rebel flag on them. When did a law pass saying rebel flags were illegal or unconstitutional? Funny how out of over 800 employees only 6 sued. If the workplace was so racist and considered a hostile environment, why didn't every black not sue?