At 11 a.m. Monday, New Era Cap Co. leadership and workers staged a rally at the company’s Derby plant designed to show “who the real New Era is.”
Two hours later, the Buffalo-based hatmaker was slammed in a Washington, D.C., press conference by the leaders of the Teamsters and NAACP.
What fueled the dueling press conferences were charges from the NAACP and Teamsters that New Era discriminates against employees at its Mobile, Ala. plant.