The Honorable Richard McDermott
Note for Hearing with Oral Arguments
Friday, January 18th, 2002 at
9:00AM
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON
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LARRY PITTMAN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Defendant. |
No. 99-2-52345-8 KNT DECLARATION OF LARRY PITTMAN IN SUPPORT OF MICHAEL PITTMAN IN
OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT’S MOTION for summary judgment Note for Hearing with
Oral Arguments Friday, January 18th,
2002 at 9:00AM |
I, Larry Pittman, one of the plaintiffs in the above captioned case, declare as follows:
I helped my brother to get a job at King’s Command Foods, Inc., and I observed his work at the factory. He was a hard worker because he really needed and wanted to be fulltime position with King's Command. I heard Terry Smith and Kirk McCoy promise him a fulltime position if he worked every weekend, which he did. They also called my house and told my mother that they were going to hire Mike fulltime. They gave Mike the dirtiest jobs, including by stuck in the boxloft scrapping paint off the wall day after day. When he was through with that they would put him shoveling meat onto a conveyor belt. They hired Steve Elliott's sister, one of King's Command's multi-vac operators and they are both white. They called her "Little Bit." I talked to her personally and she was a good friend of mine. She had no experience. Mike had experience plus seniority over her, but they gave her the fulltime job instead of Mike. She didn't last long in that position. Even after she lost her job that did not give Mike, who was still working at King's Command, the opportunity to work fulltime.
They offered Mike a job working nights in Laundry. They told him this would be a fulltime position if he took it. They lied to him and never did give him a fulltime job. He got so fed up with so many people hired in front of him that he up and quit. I have personal knowledge of these matters. Terry Smith called me in his office one day and told me the only reason he kept Mike around was because he felt sorry for him. He never said what he meant by that.
Both Mike and myself asked Terry, Kirk and Wally not to call us "boy" as to us the name was racial to us and we found it offensive. I asked them how old does a black man have to be before they called him a man. They never stopped no matter how much we asked them to quit doing it.
I certify under the penalties of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington the foregoing is true and correct.
Dated this 6th day of January, 2002.
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Larry Pittman, Plaintiff
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