Anti-Black racism complaint bound for Canadian Human Rights Commission after court denies public service class action

The Public Service Alliance of Canada filed a human rights complaint on behalf of all of its Black members employed in the federal public service on March 27.
Black Class Action Secretariat president Nicholas Marcus Thompson, pictured at a rally outside the Prime Minister’s Office last year. The secretariat has vowed the keep fighting after a Federal Court judge denied certification of a $2.5-billion class action lawsuit.

Weeks after a Federal Court decision to deny certification of a class-action lawsuit initiated by Black public servants, the country's largest public sector union has filed a human rights complaint alleging decades of anti-Black racism in the federal civil service.

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