A threat to smear subcontractors names in the newspaper is the latest tactic the City of St. Louis is using to motivate subcontractors to employ more minority workers.

The threat came at an S.M. Wilson & Co. subcontractor meeting on the O'Fallon Park Recreation Center on April 19. According to people who attended the meeting, Michael Holmes, the executive director of a city government agency, the St. Louis Agency on Training and Employment (SLATE), said to the roomful of subcontractors that if they did not meet their workforce diversity goals, "you will be smeared in the media."  CLICK HEADLINE ABOVE TO READ REST OF ARTICLE.