A lawsuit filed by a former Anchorage city employee includes claims of bullying and discrimination under former library deputy director Judy Eledge and makes allegations of race and sex discrimination at the Anchorage Fire Department.
Galligan was one of the employees who complained about Eledge. But the claims in her new lawsuit go beyond the library to include allegations against the Anchorage Fire Department, where Galligan worked for 10 years until the city cut her job and transferred her to the library.
The department’s finance officer also confronted Galligan about the T-shirts, and Galligan said she did not believe the shirts contained a Black Lives Matter symbol, the lawsuit asserts. The finance officer then insisted it was a Black Lives Matter symbol and said, “We wouldn’t be having the conversation if she wasn’t Black,” according to the lawsuit. Galligan reported the incident as race discrimination to the fire chief and two other supervisors.
Then, at the library, Eledge “subjected Galligan to intimidation, discriminatory speech, and unfair treatment on a regular basis” and Galligan was “constantly subjected to Eledge’s discriminatory and threatening tirades and lectures,” the lawsuit asserts. the city disputed that MacAlpine was fired in retaliation for acting as a whistleblower and denied claims that Eledge made racist statements.
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