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<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="blogstyle"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Not just freedom fries at this English-only drive-in?</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div class="blogstyle"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div class="blogstyle"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" style="font: 14.4px Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">In 2002 the owners of R.D.’s Drive-In, a small eatery in Page, Arizona, began requiring their all-Navajo staff to speak only English when serving customers or working in the kitchen, as well as when they went on break. According </span></font><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3DA113DF933A15751C1A9649C8B63"><font color="#4c2387" style="color: #4c2387"><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">to the </span></font></u><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">New York Times,</span></font></i></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> R.D.’s owners claimed this English-only policy was necessary because some male employees were making rude and sexually-suggestive remarks in Navajo about customers, and they insisted that the ban on Navajo actually proved that management supported its Navajo staff and patrons.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" style="font: 14.4px Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Most employees, including the alleged harassers, signed statements agreeing to the new rule. But the four women employees who were fired for not signing the one-language pledge didn’t feel particularly supported. Instead, they complained to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that the owners applied their language rule only when it suited them, “encouraging Navajos to break the English-only rule and use their native language when a sale depended on it.” So the EEOC sued R.D.’s for discriminating on the basis of national origin, in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. </span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The EEOC has won settlements against employers in many language disputes, and now, in its first case of discrimination involving a Native American language, it has negotiated a settlement with the drive-in owners: they may require employees to speak English while dealing with the public, but not at other times. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" style="font: 14.4px Verdana"> <font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br> Both sides in this long-running case are claiming victory: the EEOC for getting the drive-in owners to agree that employees may use their native Navajo when appropriate at work, and the Kidmans for striking a blow for small businesses as well as supporting English, a language that many Americans seem to think is in danger of becoming extinct....</span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Read the rest at </span></font><a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">the Web of Language:</span></font></a></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage</span></font></a></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px">DB</p></p></font></div></div><div class="blogstyle"><br></div></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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