E.E.O.C. v. PIPEFITTERS ASS'N LOCAL 597

No. 02-2057.

334 F.3d 656 (2003)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff-Appellee, and James M. Ferguson, Intervening Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PIPEFITTERS ASSOCIATION LOCAL UNION 597, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 1, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph A. Seiner (argued), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Office of General Counsel, Washington, DC, for plaintiff-appellee.

Laurence Gold (argued), Bredhoff & Kaiser, Washington, DC, Dennis R. Johnson, McCarthy & Johnson, Chicago, IL, for defendant-appellant.

Catherine Bremer, Bremer & Warner, Chicago, IL, for intervenor-appellee.

Before POSNER, MANION, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The EEOC brought suit against Foster Wheeler Constructors, the prime contractor on a project to construct a recycling plant in Robbins, Illinois, and a local of the pipefitters union that supplied workers to Foster Wheeler. The suit, based on Title VII and also on 42 U.S.C. § 1981— but the standards are the same under the two statutes, at least so far as bears on this case, Bennett v...

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