Legal Opinion
Thomas v. Anchorage Telephone Utility
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided July 28, 1987No. S-51PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COMPTON, Justice.
In this case we are called upon to determine the propriety of a negotiated salary increase for Anchorage Telephone Utility (ATU) employees in 1975 which featured a larger increase for male-dominated positions (45%) than for female-dominated positions (35%). The trial court held that defendants ATU and the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers, Local 1547 (IBEW) successfully rebutted the plaintiffs’ prima facie case of disparate treatment sex discrimination; plaintiffs failed as a matter of law to establish a case of disparate impact sex discrimination; IBEW did…
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