International Union of Operating Engineers v. Minneapolis Civil Service Commission

OPINION

LANSING, Judge.

Relators, individual construction equipment operators and their bargaining representative, International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 49, filed a petition for certiorari on the Minneapolis Civil Service Commission’s decision to refuse equipment operators’ applications to test for the position of construction foreman. Because the Commission’s exclusion of the equipment operators from promotional testing bears no rational relationship to any legitimate governmental purpose, we vacate the Commission’s ruling which precludes construc*516tion equipment operators as a class…