Custodian ‘Abandoned’ by U.S. In Discrimination Suit
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WASHINGTON — With Democrats in Congress criticizing the Bush administration’s record on enforcing anti-discrimination laws, a New York City school custodian yesterday told lawmakers that the Justice Department had “abandoned” her and other female employees in a legal fight over hiring practices.
“I trusted the Justice Department, and then it betrayed and abandoned me and many others,” the custodian, Janet Caldero, said in testimony before a House Judiciary subcommittee. Ms. Caldero, 54, has worked in the city’s public schools for 15 years, and for the last two years at a junior high school in Queens, which she and her attorney asked not be identified.
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