By Corrado Gigante, Retired Director, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Board Member IAOVC In my last column, I wrote about the experiences of two Italian American women working in an American Legion hall in Rhode Island. They experienced ethnic and sexual harassment clearly directed at them by words and deeds. Yet, in many instances of discrimination, the language used is not so clear and overt, since it is often subtle, couched in ways to hide the malicious intent. Let me share with you once such example that many of you are already familiar with. Leave With Out Pay (LWOP) is a commonly used acronym in the field of human resources and payroll administration for recording leave used by an employee when that individual employee has insufficient leave time available. On its face it is a neutral term, but in fact it has been the source of harassment charges filed by individuals and groups. A very small number of employers however use only With Out Pay (WOP).
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Will we ever have enough Italian Americans that will stand up and defend our heritage and culture from continued negative portrayals?
When will Hollywood, the entertainment and advertising industries stop negatively stereotyping Italian Americans? That is the question many Italian Americans want answered, especially after the TV networks and Hollywood have been polluting the air with negative reality shows and continuous movies and TV shows with Mafioso themes.
The Italian American One Voice Coalition Gets Results – Join The Fight To Defend Our Heritage11/30/2013 Since the debut of Mario Puzo’s “Godfather” movie more than 40 years ago, Italian Americans have been fighting an uphill battle for positive representation in mass media, especially including television and film productions.
Last week we introduced a collaborative effort between the Italian Tribune newspaper
and the Italian American One Voice Coalition (IAOVC). The following article has been written by an active member of IAOVC. We will be bringing you over the course of this year many interesting articles by the One Voice Coalition to keep you abreast of issues of discrimination against Italian Americans in the media including movies, television, radio, commercials and print. NEW JERSEY, UNITED STATES—The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition—the largest Italian anti-bias group in North America—is calling upon the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting to halt its television advertisement in Canada that stereotypes Italians as mobsters.
The County of Union and UNICO District X (encompassing all of Union County, parts of Middlesex County and Somerset Counties), held its Fifth Annual Columbus Day Event at the Union County Courthouse in Elizabeth with a special card of speakers, including TV and Radio Broadcaster Frank Cipolla.
The Italian American One Voice Coalition, the only nationwide group dedicated solely to fighting Italian American defamation, is praising New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo for supporting the New York Racing Association’s decision to ban a food truck with the outrageously offensive name: “The Wandering Dago,” and supporting the NYRA decision to re-enforce the ban in court.
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