GM Toledo Plant Tolerated Racism, Fired Supervisor Alleges (1)

General Motors LLC was hit with a federal lawsuit by a Black former engineer at a Toledo, Ohio, GM plant who alleges he was wrongfully terminated based on “false, and derogatory statements” made by “a coterie” of White employees he supervised.

Plaintiff Albert Petties alleges there was an “atmosphere of violent racial hate and racial bullying” at the GM Powertrain & Fabrications plant where Black employees “were subject to vilification and racially hostile remarks and epithets.”

The incidents at the plant included multiple nooses hung above work spaces, White workers calling Black workers “boy” and “monkey,” swastikas painted on bathroom ...