Blake v. Potter

ALICE M. BATCHELDER, Circuit Judge.

Lucille Blake is a Caucasian woman who has been employed by the United States Postal Service (“USPS”) since 1999 as a full-time mail handler, a union job covered by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (“Union”). Her superiors and managers are African-American. Ms. Blake’s schedule is subject to a bidding process prescribed in the CBA, which is weighted towards seniority. For personal reasons involving her dependent child, Ms. Blake wanted to work weekdays with weekends and evenings off. This is the most…