Some Ex-workers Object To Kodak Settlement Offer

Reported by CBS 2 on Friday, 23 October 2009 (on October 23, 2009)

A group of former Eastman Kodak Co. workers objected Friday to a proposed $21.4 million deal to settle two lawsuits by black employees who maintain they were paid and promoted less than white counterparts. "The settlement is unfair ... very insufficient," Barbara Searight, who was an assembly line worker at the photography products company for 24 years until 1996. "We feel we were sold out by our lawyers." In July, Kodak proposed paying about 3,000 current and past workers settlement amounts ranging from $1,000 to $75,000. If approved, the deal would end a 2004 class-action lawsuit and a similar lawsuit filed by other black workers in 2007.

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