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Excerpt from The Weber Case and Collective Bargaining
Significance of collective bargaining as a mechanism to implement affirma tive action efforts in the workplace. At issue was whether employers and unions may voluntarily select craft trainees for an ih-plant training pro gram, based oh race even if a court could require this in a litigated case or approve it in a consent decree. Why would a powerful union and a large employer agree as a part of a collective bargaining contract to correct racial imbalances in selected jobs? In the words of Judge Wisdom's dissent on this case in the Fifth Circuit court, Today the Court grapples with the question whether, in a collective bargaining agreement, recognition of race for remedial purposes in employment practices is legal 'affirmative action' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
