TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1996

WHO:
 
 

• NOW President Patricia Ireland
• The Rev. Jesse Jackson, National Rainbow Coalition/Operation PUSH
• William Shack, National Association of Minority Auto Dealers president
• Martin Cumba, chair of the board, NAMAD
• Winston Pittman, Chrysler Minority Dealers Association president
• Richard Davis, General Motors Minority Dealers Association president

• will meet for the first time with Tohei Takeuchi, president and CEO of Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America;
• as well as with Tsuneo Ohinouye, Mitsubishi Motor Manufacturing of America chair of the board; Richard D. Recchla, MMMA executive vice president and CEO; Kim Custer, MMMA public and government relations director, and other Mitsubishi representatives

WHERE: at Operation PUSH headquarters, 930 East 50th St., Chicago
 
 

WHY: to discuss the EEOC's sexual harassment suit, Mitsubishi's response and NOW's informational pickets at Mitsubishi and Chrysler dealerships.
 
 

"We want a meeting with Mitsubishi's top brass, but it doesn't mean we're calling off our informational pickets," Ireland said. "Positive actions speaker louder than words."

 When Ireland and Jackson toured the Normal plant two weeks ago, employees told them that not only are sexual and racial harassment continuing problems there, so is fear of retribution against complainants and co-workers who defend them.

 "Employees themselves are asking us to keep up the public pressure until management takes positive steps to resolve the EEOC suit and eliminate ongoing harassment," Ireland said.