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Ford in hot water over race relations again
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• Ford is facing renewed allegations of racist recruitment policies after advertising for four truck drivers at its foundry in Leamington Spa. Warwickshire.
Three Asian workers at the plant claim they were unfairly denied the jobs, which involve delivering parts to Ford plants around the UK and are better paid than production work.
Transport & General Workers Union deputy general secretary Tony Woodley describes their treatment as "unbelievable and quite unacceptable".
"The company has been through race difficulties in the past and the T&G and the Commission for Racial Equality have helped them to agree fair procedures," he says. "The local personnel manager appears not to have known of these procedures when he recruited drivers for the truck fleet."
However, Ford spokeswoman Lydia Aydon denies the row is over race: "There were inconsistencies in the way the selection process was carried out. It was completely unintentional—it just happened."
• Five years ago, the company was forced to pay compensation to a group of Asian and AfroCaribbean workers at its plant in Dagenham after they were turned down for driving jobs.
The company has also paid compensation to four black workers after white faces were imposed on their photographs in a sales brochure.