Legal Opinion
United Steelworkers of America v. Weber
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 27, 1979No. 78-432PublishedCited by 799 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
Challenged here is the legality of an affirmative action plan- — collectively bargained by an employer and a union— that reserves for black employees 50% of the openings in an in-plant craft-training program until the percentage of black craftworkers in the plant is commensurate with the percentage of blacks in the local labor force. The question for decision is whether Congress, in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 253, as amended, 42 U. S. C. § 2000e et seq., left employers and unions in the private sector free to take such race-conscious steps to eliminate manifest racial…
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