The California IATSE Council, saying it is “appalled” by the racist comments made during a secretly recorded conversation last year among three members of the Los Angeles City Council and a local l…
Joe Biden Calls On Three Los Angeles City Council Members To Resign Over Remarks Revealed In Leaked Audio
Demonstrating that it means business, IATSE recently expelled one of its own – a member of IATSE Local 479 in Atlanta – for making similarly racist statements. According to the latest report of IATSE’s general executive board, the now-former member was expelled after having been found guilty at trial “of using racist, incendiary, sexist, harassing and discriminatory comments and of describing black women by using a pejorative term.” He was expelled from the union and fined $10,000.
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