The State - News from Nov. 29, 1985
Charges of reverse discrimination have been lodged in an Alameda County Superior Court lawsuit on behalf of eight white members of an Oakland firefighting recruit class. A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the start of the class after the Oakland Black Firefighters’ Assn. filed a suit contending the class’s racial composition did not meet Oakland affirmative action goals, which call for a ratio of 47% black and 53% women on the city employee payroll. Several of the white firefighters have quit their jobs and feel “caught in the cross fire,” said attorney Michael Ciraolo, who filed the suit.
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