Comments on: To the Editor: No numbers to back up Sheffield’s claims http://rockrivertimes.com/2010/06/09/to-the-editor-no-numbers-to-back-up-sheffields-claims/ The Rock River Times - THE VOICE OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1993 Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:22:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: shern http://rockrivertimes.com/2010/06/09/to-the-editor-no-numbers-to-back-up-sheffields-claims/comment-page-1/#comment-870 shern Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:25:37 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=24933#comment-870 Story time! Continuing on the saga of the Lewis Lemon School Cafeteria manager selection...latest news is that the union was asked to file a grievance on behalf of the caucasian candidate (the one who lost her bid for the mgr. job at Lemon) and the union rep says, because the new union contract book was not yet signed, the grievance would go no further because the old contract book did not carry specific language about seniority having priority in selection of candidates. Excuse me? Past practice in food service reflected the choice of candidate on capability, experience, and seniority in food service. The new contract book states that seniority is indeed a priority. Back to the bare facts, the African American candidate that was chosen for the mgr. job does not have the vast experience nor the seniority as the caucasian candidate has. The "winner" was indeed chosen by the African American principal at Lewis Lemon, who went directly to Supt. Sheffield and requested her! Sheffield instructed her people to relay to Food Service to Hire Her! This is as clear a case of discrimination as could possibly be! Why there has been no investigation of this incident is beyond explanation! Are the School Board members(whom allegely receive trips and gifts from Dr. Sheffield) going to continue to support and condone these ludicrous events and incidents? There will surely be some changes when the voters have their say! Stand up for this horrible unfair injustice to this hard-working food service worker who sought only to better herself but instead ran into a wall of discrimination and sad behavior among our very own "leaders". I hope she takes her fight to an attorney and sues the Rockford District for discrimination. She has the facts to back it up. Story time! Continuing on the saga of the Lewis Lemon School Cafeteria manager selection…latest news is that the union was asked to file a grievance on behalf of the caucasian candidate (the one who lost her bid for the mgr. job at Lemon) and the union rep says, because the new union contract book was not yet signed, the grievance would go no further because the old contract book did not carry specific language about seniority having priority in selection of candidates. Excuse me? Past practice in food service reflected the choice of candidate on capability, experience, and seniority in food service. The new contract book states that seniority is indeed a priority. Back to the bare facts, the African American candidate that was chosen for the mgr. job does not have the vast experience nor the seniority as the caucasian candidate has. The “winner” was indeed chosen by the African American principal at Lewis Lemon, who went directly to Supt. Sheffield and requested her! Sheffield instructed her people to relay to Food Service to Hire Her! This is as clear a case of discrimination as could possibly be! Why there has been no investigation of this incident is beyond explanation! Are the School Board members(whom allegely receive trips and gifts from Dr. Sheffield) going to continue to support and condone these ludicrous events and incidents? There will surely be some changes when the voters have their say! Stand up for this horrible unfair injustice to this hard-working food service worker who sought only to better herself but instead ran into a wall of discrimination and sad behavior among our very own “leaders”. I hope she takes her fight to an attorney and sues the Rockford District for discrimination. She has the facts to back it up.

]]> By: VeryModest http://rockrivertimes.com/2010/06/09/to-the-editor-no-numbers-to-back-up-sheffields-claims/comment-page-1/#comment-865 VeryModest Fri, 11 Jun 2010 04:12:13 +0000 http://rockrivertimes.com/?p=24933#comment-865 Please don't forget that this is the same woman that made the comment at the Signal Hill neighborhood meeting that she has people looking at ways around the contract. A contract I might add that she agreed to and signed her name. This is also the woman that stood up before that group of people and was there to answer their questions. Only when she started answering each question she was on topic for the first couple of minutes and then very skillfully took that topic and twisted it around to what she really wanted to talk about. I don't remember her answering one question that was asked of her that night but she sure did a whole lot of talking. As for Cedric Lewis, shouldn't the Regional Office also have his credentials on file? He is a public employee paid for out of taxpayer funds. So shouldn't his information be public knowledge just like everyone else that is paid for with taxpayer monies? Please don’t forget that this is the same woman that made the comment at the Signal Hill neighborhood meeting that she has people looking at ways around the contract. A contract I might add that she agreed to and signed her name. This is also the woman that stood up before that group of people and was there to answer their questions. Only when she started answering each question she was on topic for the first couple of minutes and then very skillfully took that topic and twisted it around to what she really wanted to talk about. I don’t remember her answering one question that was asked of her that night but she sure did a whole lot of talking.

As for Cedric Lewis, shouldn’t the Regional Office also have his credentials on file? He is a public employee paid for out of taxpayer funds. So shouldn’t his information be public knowledge just like everyone else that is paid for with taxpayer monies?

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