Legal Opinion
West Virginia Human Rights Commission v. United Transportation Union
West Virginia Supreme Court
Decided July 2, 1981No. 14212; No. 14213PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Harshbarger, Chief Justice:
Plaintiffs, seventeen black railway yardmen or former yardmen of the Norfolk and Western Railroad Company, charged their employer and United Transportation Union and its Local No. 655, their union, with racial discrimination. Their seniority system put blacks in inferior positions with lesser benefits.
A complaint was filed with the West Virginia Human Rights Commission on April 3, 1971, and subsequent complaints by other plaintiffs were consolidated for hearing. The railroad settled out, and James B. McIntyre, Hearing Examiner, heard the case against the unions in…
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