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1980

Washington Law Review

Civil Rights and Discrimination

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United Steelworkers Of America V. Weber: An Exercise In Understandable Indecision, George Schatzki Dec 1980

United Steelworkers Of America V. Weber: An Exercise In Understandable Indecision, George Schatzki

Washington Law Review

It is well known to those involved in the world of employment-discrimination law that in 1974 the United Steelworkers of America and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation entered into a collective-bargaining agreement which provided for a new on-the-job training program designed solely to correct the virtually total absence of blacks in Kaiser's craft workforce. Fifty percent of the trainees were to be black. Brian Weber, a white production worker who failed to obtain a position in the program, instituted a class action suit alleging that the affirmative action plan discriminated against him and his white colleagues in violation of Title …


United Steelworkers Of America V. Weber: An Exercise In Understandable Indecision, George Schatzki Dec 1980

United Steelworkers Of America V. Weber: An Exercise In Understandable Indecision, George Schatzki

Washington Law Review

It is well known to those involved in the world of employment-discrimination law that in 1974 the United Steelworkers of America and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation entered into a collective-bargaining agreement which provided for a new on-the-job training program designed solely to correct the virtually total absence of blacks in Kaiser's craft workforce. Fifty percent of the trainees were to be black. Brian Weber, a white production worker who failed to obtain a position in the program, instituted a class action suit alleging that the affirmative action plan discriminated against him and his white colleagues in violation of Title …