Coca-Cola Workers Sue, Claim Giant Is 'Cesspool of Discrimination'

Twelve years ago, Coca-Cola settled a racial discrimination case for more than $156 million, the largest of its kind. The world's leading soft-drink manufacturer also agreed to spend $36 million on pro-diversity changes and to allow a panel of outsiders to revise personnel policy. But it wasn't enough, if the claims of 16 black and Hispanic employees are true. They say two Coca-Cola production plants in New York were a "cesspool of racial discrimination," reports New York's Daily News.

The Coca-Cola workers say that they were forced to perform the least desirable assignments, and white employees would taunt them with racial epithets, without facing punishment. The 16 workers have filed a lawsuit in Brooklyn Federal Court.