Minority Workers vs. MTBA

Today, The Boston Globe had a story by Noah Bierman discussing a racial discrimination lawsuit against the MBTA by the MBTA Latino Alliance. According to the MBTA Latino Alliance, a three year old group of minority MBTA workers, discrimination among issues of "minority hiring, discipline, pay, and promotions". They have chosen Phillip J. Gordon as their attorney and are planning a lawsuit against the MBTA. According to this article, minorities make up "more than one-third of the 6,000 MBTA employees". There are also statistics that Craig Dias, the Alliances' leader, points to which show minorities making up 62.9% of all fired employees in 2008. Although we do not know how many minorities were employed by the MBTA that year, there may be some truth to those shocking statistics.