Jim Crow Lives At Tyson Foods in 2005

A lawsuit filed today alleges that Tyson Foods, Inc. is responsible for maintaining a segregated bathroom and break room, reminiscent of the Jim Crow era, in its Ashland, Alabama chicken processing plant. Twelve African-American employees filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, alleging that a “Whites Only” sign and a padlock denied them access to a bathroom in the Ashland plant. The complaint states that numerous white employees had keys to the bathroom that were not provided to African-American workers.

The EEOC is a party to a related suit arising from the same facts.

What is wrong with Tyson Foods?  It makes you want to scream.

Author: ohwilleke

A lawyer from Denver. I am married and have two young children, and a cat. Dogs are for soup.