BOWE v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY

Nos. 16624-16626, 16632.

416 F.2d 711 (1969)

Thelma BOWE et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants. Thelma BOWE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees. Thelma BOWE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COLGATE-PALMOLIVE COMPANY et al., Defendant-Appellee, and International Chemical Workers Union, Local No. 15, Defendant-Appellant. Georgianna SELLERS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COLGATE PALMOLIVE COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing October 29, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marion W. Garnett, Chicago, Ill., John O. Moss, Indianapolis, Ind., Jerry D. Anker, Sylvia S. Ellison, Washington, D. C., for Thelma Bowe, and others, plaintiffs-appellants; Rogers, Garnett, Harth, Vital & Stroger, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Herbert L. Segal, Louisville, Ky., Richard C. O'Connor, New Albany, Ind., Thomas C. Galligan, New York City, Hubert T. Willis, W. Bruce Baird, Louisville, Ky., for defendant-appellee, Colgate-Palmolive Co.

Stephen I. Schlossberg, Bernard F. Ashe, Stanley Lubin, Detroit, Mich., for amicus curiae, International Union, UAW.

James F. Rill, William W. Scott, Washington, D. C., for National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., amicus curiae; Collier, Shannon & Rill, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Daniel Steiner, Gen. Counsel, Russell Specter, David Zugschwerdt, Attys., E. E. O. C., Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

Before CUMMINGS and KERNER, Circuit Judges, and WISE, District Judge.


KERNER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs are present and/or former female employees of defendant Colgate-Palmolive Company (Colgate) who were represented, for collective bargaining purposes, by defendant International Chemical Workers Union, Local No. 15 (Union) at Colgate's Jeffersonville, Indiana, plant. Plaintiffs sued Colgate and the Union under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq. charging that they were intentionally discriminated...

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