From meade@io.org Mon Mar 11 00:39:58 1996 Xref: elastic can.general:37900 can.politics:50844 soc.culture.african.american:3157 tor.general:35547 Path: elastic!lethe!geac!gts!whome!infoshare!istar.net!news1.vancouver.istar.net!news.vancouver.istar.net!van-bc!news1.io.org!meade From: meade@io.org (Dari Meade) Newsgroups: tor.general,can.politics,can.general,alt.discrimination,soc.culture.african.american Subject: RACISM: Too many white firefighters in Toronto Date: 10 Mar 1996 20:33:16 GMT Organization: Internex Online (io.org), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4hvead$qrb@news1.io.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: zap.io.org X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2ovr] This is just proof that employment equity is not enough. People-of-color are being discriminated against in hiring and the only way to give them there fair share of jobs when there are racist hiring policies is to fire some of the existing workforce to make room for those who were not hired because of racist or sexist hiring policys. On Tue, 27 Feb 1996 Zeljko "Zed" Zidaric wrote: : The Toronto Star, in an editorial on 26 Feb. complains that there are too : many white firemen. : : The editorial states that while white men make up only 38% of the : population of the City of Toronto but 90% of the firefighters are white : males. : : The Toronto Star criticizes the Toronto firefighter hiring policies because : they rank applicants by aptitude and physical tests. In other words the : best suited person gets the job. The editorial says that the hiring : practices are discriminatory because women are at a physical disadvantage. : : The editorial suggests that the City should be less discriminatory and hire : more women and minorities... ie political hiring.