Detroit Diesel Remanufacturing
West disability discrimination, retaliation, harassment ripoff

My husband and I both worked for this company. I was forced to quit a few months ago but he is still working there.

My husband is blind and got a promotion to a higher pay grade. After two and a half years in that job, a new manager and supervisor were brought to the area. They immediately began harassing him.

After six months of these actions, an attorney advised that we should go to the human resources manager and alert her to this. We decided that in case of any retaliatory actions that I would go in since I made much less and could get another job alot quicker than he could. We had been told that the last person to claim discrimination had been fired immediately upon complaining.

I was told it was none of my business and to go back to work in a nutshell. Nine months later, my husband was demoted because he cannot see and they have now made it a requirement to drive pickers and forklifts. Which had really been a requirement all along and he was accommodated for that.

Now, he must accept a lower paying job that he did not ask for or want and that a five year old can do or lose his job. That is the only way that he can continue to receive job accommodations.

He was told by the h.R. Manager that he should be thankful that they did not cut his wages more because his new job was not worth what they were now paying, and he should be grateful that the company continued to allow him to have a job.

There are too many actions that his manager and supervisor have committed against him to give all details, but everyone should know that human resources backed up this behavior and he is not the only one these things have happened to.

I stood up for him and was refused my earned raises, had clock in times changed by my boss to reflect tardies that did not exist, was written up for those tardies, refused appropriate medical treatment for job related injuries, and ultimately forced to quit to prevent being unjustly terminated.

Luckily for him, this company's representatives have been arrogant enough to put all of their treatment of my husband into writing. Unfortunately, the attorney he hired is ripping him off now and taking advantage of him. He is over charging him, charging him for work that I have done to save on the fees, and gives legal advice that he later says he never gave him and that it is wrong. We cannot afford another attorney due to loss of his and my wages, nor can I prove the harassment and retaliation that I was subjected to.

We did file a complaint with the Utah Antidiscrimination and Labor Division, and they open a case with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. They told us last month that they are not going to begin an investigation until twelve to eighteen months from now. Most of the employees who are witnesses have since been fired.

I just want the world to know that this particular company, which is owned by Daimler-Chrysler, is a very serious violator of constitutional and civil rights of its employees. The corporate office in Detroit apparently refuses to look into the hundreds of complaints and lawsuits made by employees concerning gender, handicap, age, and just about any other type of discriminatory category you can think of.

I have tried to tell the most important pieces of information here but there is so much more to this and it is not right that it should take so long to get relief from this type of work environment. If these things are against the law, a victim should have the ability to get immediate relief.

My husband is only still employed because he has an attorney. However, as of last week, we found out that management officials were told by the h.R. Manager that this case was settled six months ago and they believe that they can now get away with this behavior again. It has now begun again and the threat to his job was even put into writing! I will keep those who may be interested updated.

Company: Detroit Diesel Remanufacturing
Country: USA
State: Utah
City: Tooele
Address: 100 Lodestone Way
Phone: 4358436000

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