Legal Opinion
Frank Daniels, Cross-Appellant v. Pipefitters' Association Local Union No. 597, Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 30, 1991No. 90-3124, 90-3261PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
The backdrop to this case of individual racial discrimination is the historic resistance within the building trades in the Chicago area to accepting racial and ethnic minorities into their ranks. The plaintiff, Frank Daniels, is black. He was able to get his start as a pipefitter and welder on account of the Chicago Plan, a government-sponsored directive designed to increase minority representation in the construction industry. 1 Daniels left the building trade fourteen years later when he was expelled from his trade union, Pipefitters’ Association Local Union Number…
2Cases cited51 opinions
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