A maintenance supervisor at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center was fired this month after a workplace investigation found he sent sexually inappropriate text messages to a woman who worked under him, records obtained Wednesday by KSAT Investigates confirm.
Maintenance crew leader Roland Garcia’s termination came weeks after he took part in anti-harassment and sexual harassment training at work and just days after female maintenance employees
Other inappropriate messages sent by Garcia were found during the city’s investigation of him, his termination paperwork states. Attorneys for the women have indicated that they plan to seek class-action status, and other potential victims could be added to the suit.A KSAT report last summer showed that female maintenance employees were subjected to incidents that included hair pulling, groping, verbal abuse and receiving inappropriate sexual messages from supervisors.
Convention center officials, however, allowed Cortez to return to work while his criminal case was pending.He is tentatively scheduled to go to trial early next month.A separate maintenance supervisor at the convention center, Michael Talamantes, resigned early this year after two female employees accused him ofIn a two-page handwritten complaint, one female employee said Talamantes attempted to choke her in a bathroom while she was cleaning toilets and then grabbed her buttocks.
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