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Sunday, September 27, 2026

FCA, UAW Mostly Defeat Ex-Employee's Bias, Representation Suit - Bloomberg Law

FCA US, LLC and UAW Int’l Union defeated most claims brought by a lesbian assembly worker who was fired after an altercation with another employee who allegedly repeatedly called her homophobic slurs.

Most of Leslie Curtright’s discrimination, duty of fair representation, breach of contract, and wrongful termination claims were dismissed by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Thursday because she failed to exhaust administrative remedies, they were preempted, or the court declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the state law claims.

However, Cutright’s duty of fair representation claim against UAW chapter Local 51 survived because her ...

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