WASHINGTON Lockheed to pay in discrimination case | Santa Rosa Press Democrat // News for California's North Bay and Redwood Empire: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Wednesday announced its largest-ever settlement for an individual racial discrimination case -- $2.5 million -- against Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Md.
Lockheed agreed to pay Charles Daniels, a black aviation electrician who claimed he was subjected to racial epithets and threatened with bodily harm by white employees while repairing military aircraft.
Daniels, 45, "was the target of persistent verbal abuse by coworkers and a supervisor whose racial slurs and offensive language included calling him the N-word, and saying, 'We should do to blacks what Hitler did to the Jews,' and if the South had won then this would be a better country," the EEOC said in a statement. "Daniels was also subjected to multiple physical threats, such as lynching and death threats after he reported the harassment."
The harassment and threats took place throughout the time Daniels worked at Lockheed plants in Florida, Washington state and Hawaii.
The EEOC said Lockheed "failed to discipline the harassers and instead allowed the discrimination against Daniels to continue unabated during his two-year tenure even though the company was aware of the unlawful conduct."
