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Government sues Union Pacific over using flawed test to disqualify color blind railroad workers
John Funk Associated Press//October 2, 2023//[read_meter]
A Union Pacific train travels through Union, Neb., July 31, 2018. The federal government has joined a number of former workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used its own vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind and might have trouble reading signals telling them to stop a train. The new lawsuit was announced on Oct. 2, 2023, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Government sues Union Pacific over using flawed test to disqualify color blind railroad workers
John Funk Associated Press//October 2, 2023//[read_meter]
These cases were once going to be part of a class-action lawsuit that the railroad estimated might include as many as 7,700 people. OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The federal government...
