General Motors sued after HR ignored horrific racist incidents

Nine African-American workers at a General Motors (GM) plant in the US are suing their employer after alleging that a number of disturbing racists incidents went unpunished by the firm’s HR department, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Black workers at the Ohio plant reported that they discovered ‘Whites Only” and swastika graffiti in their toilets, were called racial slurs and told to go back to Africa.

White workers wore shirts under their coveralls with visible Nazi symbols on them, and black employees were told to be careful because a white employee's "daddy was in the Ku Klan Klan."

In one shocking incident, GM factory worker Mark Edwards discovered a noose had been tied by his work station – a symbol that represents lynching.