Labor Updates (5/15/07)

The Justice Department has become a "plantation"  rife with racial discrimination  and a "dramatic drain in African-African staff over the past few years," reports Paul Kiel in his May 14 Talking Points Memo expose. AFSCME's Counsel 26 members "talk about disrespect from managers," Council 26 Executive Director Carl Goldman tells Kiel, "They talk about explicitly racist comments by attorneys brought in by the Republican political appointees."