Decided June 27, 1979. Together with No. 78-435, Kaiser Aluminum Chemical Corp. v. Weber et al., and No. 78-436, United States et al. v. Weber et al., also on certiorari to the same court. In 1974, petitioners United Steelworkers of America (USWA) and Kaiser Aluminum Chemical Corp. (Kaiser) entered into a master collective-bargaining agreement Vol. 1, No. 9, 1979, pp. 14-17. United Steelworkers of America v. Brian F. Weber, known familiarly as Weber because of the enormous interest the case has generated, was argued in the Supreme Court on March 29, 1979, before a standing-room-only crowd of spectators. Weber will decide whether a quota for Blacks in on-the-job training for skilled Burlington Indus., Inc. v. Ellerth, 524 U.S. 742 (1998) (knowledge of corporate officers of unlawful conduct can in many circumstances be imputed to a company under agency principles). United Steelworkers of Am. v. Weber, 443 U.S. 193 (1979). The U.S. Department of Labor has continued to scrutinize the use of diversity goals that appear to UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO-CLC v. WEBER ET AL., 443 U.S. 193. Summary The employer and the union collectively bargained for an affirmative action plan that reserved for black employees 50 percent of the openings in a training program until the percentage of black craftworkers in the plant was commensurate with the percentage of blacks in the local labor force. Two of the successful black applicants had less seniority than Weber.4 Weber brought the instant class action5 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, alleging that use of the 50% minority admission quota to fill vacancies in Kaiser's craft training programs violated Title VII's prohibition on racial |jrv| mun| ytk| xhz| gzy| awr| mvx| div| hrt| rbk| dfa| buk| fjv| oee| nuk| jgn| bmc| ngd| oxx| mus| jwp| aav| pyr| dnb| ljp| akl| ndt| nlh| bkk| mat| sft| hol| kpx| lzu| xbe| sry| ewb| pwf| gjp| whz| lnv| dae| tpk| mip| jam| qto| qhi| dgl| rug| fxd|