To the editor:
Readers last week learned of a $285,000 settlement between Customs and Border Protection and a former CBP officer wrongfully terminated due to her supervisor’s retaliation for her filing an EEO complaint against his comments and workplace expressed, differing religious beliefs.
NTEU Chapter 141 is proud to have helped Ms. Carnot win her case and glad a modicum of justice has been served. Unfortunately – as she and readers commented – the supervisor and management involved will suffer no discipline and likely continue their illegal activities unabated until they retire.
As unsavory as his violations are; as much as it cost the American taxpayer for CBP to settle with Ms. Carnot, both pale in comparison to others and costs involved. Chapter 141 has repeatedly exposed to senior CBP and DHS management egregious violations by the Maine area director and subordinate officials only to be dismissed in favor of “good old boy” protections. The Maine area director was proven to have misrepresented to the Chapter in writing to conceal management violations of Agency policy. They suffered naught and prosper! There is unfortunately – at a dear cost to our national security, mission, and budget — no one in DHS or the Administration holding such unscrupulous, devoid of integrity CBP management to account other than Chapter 141!
Alan D. Mulherin, president
NTEU Chapter 141
