Oh, no! Women and minorities (forward)

Kevin Dempsey Peterson (peterson@autobahn.org)
20 Jan 98 18:41:58 GMT 

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I thought you might enjoy this.  It's from Risks Digest 19.55
(comp.risks).  Very hard to tell whether a company is better off
discriminating against women and minorities, and getting bad press for
that, or hiring them, and getting bad press like the following:

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Date:   Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:48:05 -0500
From: Edupage Editors <educom@educom.unc.edu>
Subject: "Dirty Secrets" of chip industry

A six-month investigation by *USA Today* has concluded that the microchip
industry commonly endangers workers, many of them women and minorities, by
failing to fully train them about the hazardous, sometimes deadly,
chemicals with which they work. It also charges the industry with various
other infractions of environmental health regulations.  (*USA Today*, 13
Jan 1998;  Edupage, 13 Jan 1998)
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