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Last year, we reported how civil rights activist Jesse Jackson asked General Motors to provided emergency funding for minority dealers while the automaker was culling its dealerships in light of its market share.

Now Jackson is calling on Asian automakers to increase the number of ethnic minorities among their staff and management. He points to how Honda, Hyundai, and Kia currently have very few blacks and latinos among their U.S. executives, saying that the companies should be as sensitive to employment practices as Ford and General Motors. While there has been no official response from Honda and Kia at the time of this post, Hyundai responded to Jackson's statement, arguing that it does have minority executives.

[Source: Bloomberg via Detroit Free Press]

Jesse Jackson calls on Asian automakers to diversify originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 15 May 2006 07:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ford's shareholders are to reportedly consider changing the company's equal employment policy language to exclude any mention of sexual orientation. The move is expected after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected the automaker's bid to keep the matter from its proxy statement. As of right now, the Blue Oval's policy includes clauses that specifically outline the company's pledge not to discriminate based upon sexual orientation, but a request by shareholder Robert Hurley has submitted the proposal for consideration.

Ford has apparently been petitioning the government agency to exclude the issue, arguing that its inclusion will hurt the automaker's chances of wooing potential employees at certain universities (that require sexual orientation to be included in recruiting companies' policies), also fearing that backlash stemming from such a changeover could hurt sales to GLBT supporters.

The proxy statement goes out this Friday, at which point shareholders will vote on the issue. The result is expected to be made public on May 11 at Ford's annual meeting.

[Source: Associated Press via Detroit News]

Ford considering amending employment policy's sexual orientation clauses originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 11:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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