January 05, 2026
A Michigan construction company's decision to fire a union-represented worker was motivated entirely by the fact that he punched his co-worker, the company has told a Michigan federal judge in response to a discrimination suit, saying the worker's race didn't factor into the decision.
December 08, 2025
A Teamsters local asked a Michigan federal judge to remove it as a defendant in a Black construction worker's bias lawsuit, saying it decided not to arbitrate the employee's firing grievance not because of his race, but because it didn't think it could win.
November 27, 2024
A union-represented construction worker who was fired for hitting a co-worker said in a discrimination lawsuit filed in Michigan federal court that he acted in self-defense, and that the company fired him but not the co-worker who initially struck him because he is Black and his co-worker is white.