Nineteen employees — both former and current ones — of the international shipping company filed the suit on Wednesday in northern Lucas County.
The explosive complaint asserted the company “enabled, tolerated and purposefully promoted and encouraged a culture of racism and racially discriminatory conduct to take root” at the Maumee packaging distribution center, reported the Toledo Blade.
Among the more eye-popping allegations, starting around 2016, were that nooses once had been hung over an African-American worker’s workstation, a monkey doll had been decked out in UPS garb and Confederate flags were prominently displayed.
In 2016, one white employee — who has since been terminated — allegedly “fashioned two hangman’s nooses” and hung them over the desk belonging to an African-American colleague. Other white employees, including a supervisor, weren’t reprimanded after cracking jokes about the nooses, the suit claims.