Labor Unions and Title VII: A Bit-Player at the Creation Looks Back

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2014

Abstract

The author, an AFL-CIO lawyer when the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed, discusses varying views of the role of organized labor in securing the inclusion of Title VII (EEO) in the Act. The “disparate impact” theory of discrimination and the treatment of seniority and affirmative action under Title VII are also analyzed.

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