Brock v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 542 District 1

MEMORANDUM

KEARNEY, District Judge.

Union members claiming their union hiring hall’s policy allowing their union broth*434ers to directly solicit work from contractors constitutes race discrimination based on disparate impact must adduce facts supporting their suspicions. The union members cannot simply allege a hiring hall policy and lost hours without showing some causation or nexus between their alleged injury and the policy allowing all union members the opportunity to privately market their skills to contractors. Pleading a good faith complaint based on perception is much different than…