| Lawsuit
Over Context
of N Word Use
Pits Bronx
Riverbay Corp
against Local
32BJ on MLK
Day
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
book
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 16 –
Riverbay
Corporation in
The Bronx sued
the Service
Employees
International
Union, Local
32BJ to
challenge an
arbitrator's
order to
reinstate
union member
Damien Reyes,
who had
addressed an
African
American
co-worker
Arthur Taylor
as "my
N-word."
On January 6,
2023 U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Lewis J. Liman
held a
proceeding.
Inner City
Press covered
it.
Riverbay is
pointing to
New York State
cases about
the "n word,"
one of which (Gomez
v. Cablevision,
Manhattan,
2016) held
that
"permissive
use of such an
offensive word
is more than a
petty slight
or trivial
inconvenience."
Judge
Liman granted
until January
30 for a
motion to
remand the
case to state
court, with
summary
judgment
briefing
deferred until
the motion for
remand is
ruled on.
The
case is
Riverbay
Corporation v.
Service
Employees
International
Union, Local
32BJ,
22-cv-10994
(Liman)
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