3 Settle Bias Claim Against Army Corps

Six years after accusing the Army Corps of Engineers of racial harassment, three black workers have settled their claims for $389,000. Chief U.S. District Judge Donald Ziegler in Pittsburgh approved the settlement, ordering the money divided among about 50 current and former corps employees. The three men who initiated the lawsuit will receive $29,000 each for being subjected to racial harassment, denied promotions and forced to take less-desirable shifts. They claimed that from 1981 to 1990, blacks worked in a hostile environment where co-workers called them racist names and displayed Ku Klux Klan posters.