Air Line Stewards & Stewardesses Ass'n, Local 550 v. Trans World Airlines, Inc.

FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether the district court properly approved a settlement agreement terminating almost a decade of litigation regarding the, claims of the plaintiffs that defendant TWA’s policy between 1965 and 1970 of terminating female flight attendants who became mothers was sex discrimination in violation of plaintiffs’ rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. The Independent Federation of Flight Attendants (IFFA), the union representing currently employed TWA flight attendants, has intervened in this action and…