Since early this summer, Construction Dive has reported on a slew of racist incidents on construction jobsites, from racial epithets scrawled on the walls of portable toilets to nooses hung where Black workers would find them. In other incidents, workers and supervisors hurled verbal slurs and joked about lynching.
These incidents came to light as tension and protests rose across the country stemming from acts of racial injustice such as Breonna Taylor’s fatal shooting by Louisville police officers in March and the May death of George Floyd while in the custody of Minneapolis police. The construction industry was not spared from the turmoil, as reports of hate and discrimination on U.S. and Canadian jobsites began surfacing this spring.
