After working eight months for General Tool, sixty-two black male Earl Foster was fired in 2000. He claims he was fired because he is a black male. So in May 2001, he filed charge of discrimination with the Ohio Civil Rights Commission. Foster says when working there, co-workers often made racial slurs. Also his co workers would discriminate him due to his age. When Foster would tell his supervisor, his supervisor told him to stop complaining about his work environment and told him to �act like other blacks.� He was also told to �just quit if he doesn�t like it.� Almost a year later the commission said, after it�s investigation it was found probable cause to believe that General Tool unlawfully discriminated against Foster and created a hostile work environment for the plaintiff.

For a while now African-American employees working in the facilities of Cincinnati, have suffered from racial slurs, and a display of black dolls with nooses around their necks. In addition to nooses, those symbols included swastikas and other neo-Nazi paraphernalia. The EEOC upheld four individual complaints from Xerox employees. In the next few weeks, those four are expected to file a class-action lawsuit against Xerox in U.S. district court in Cincinnati.

On May 18, Paul Ross filed a law suit against Navistar�s plant. Due to racial slurs from co-workers and company officials did nothing about it. On June 20th the case was transferred to U.S. District Court in Dayton due to the case being considered a federal issue. A pretrial conference is scheduled for August 4. before Judge Walter Rice. Ross was doing good at work besides the discrimination, he was the supervisor only after two months working there. His co-workers then shortly made a routine of making racial slurs at him.
They even followed him in the rest room, kicking down the stall door he was in, according to the lawsuit. Evidence shows that Navistar didn�t take appropriate action to stop the discrimination.

James Wright President of the CAFA, states that �for several years now, we have run individual members of African-American persuasion to get to the executive level. No one has ever been elected by embership to the executive level.� He soon filed charges with the EEOC wanting to make changes in the union.70 African Americans signed the charges.
Joe Diebold, President Union states, �many of the African American firer fighters who signed the charges, are not even members of the union.�
Then he also states �I want to make it clear that Local 48 has not and will not discriminate against anyone. We are proud of our diversity, our committees and our leadership.�