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AMBULANCE SERVICE UNION RAPS REPORT ON RACISM

The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | January 3, 1987 | Copyright

A report by the Boston Human Rights Commission on racial tension between white and minority employees of the city's Emergency Medical Services Department is "unsubstantiated and irresponsible," a senior member of the ambulance service's union said yesterday.

"The union will not stand by and become scapegoats for the institutional inadequacies at Emergency Medical Services, or allow management to recklessly portray our members as racist," said Daniel White, a department paramedic and vice president of EMS Employees Union Local 636.

Speaking during a news conference at…

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