A U.S. federal court judge has dismissed a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a former employee of Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based Trident Seafoods.
U.S. Senior District Judge Marsha J. Pechman dismissed the case with prejudice and without award of costs or fees to either Trident or the plaintiff, Travis Green.
Trident “categorically denies the allegations in this complaint,” Trident Executive Vice President of Public Affairs Stefanie Moreland, told SeafoodSource
Green filed the complaint in U.S. District Court of the Western District of Washington in 2020, alleging he faced several discrimination incidents as an African American. He began working for Trident in 2019 as a production processor at one of Trident’s Alaska facilities and was quickly promoted to timekeeper, according to the complaint.
Green claimed he faced several instances of alleged discrimination while working at Trident, including one incident where he alleged a rope was fashioned into a noose and left for him to find in the place where he had been sitting earlier at the company’s dorms.
“The plaintiff immediately contacted the housing manager, José, and a safety manager, Adrian Silla, about the noose and the plaintiff wrote a statement. The plaintiff had not heard anything about this in a couple of days and decided to file a police report,” the complaint said.
In another incident, Green alleged Trident Shipping Manager Robert Garcia told him “we try to keep people like you out” and “we don’t want you people to take over.”
In its own filings, Trident said the rope Green found was not tied into a noose or left for him to find, and insisted some of the allegations, including Green’s conversation with Garcia, resulted from misunderstandings that were not race-based.
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