In re SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY MATERNITY BENEFITS LITIGATION.
Constance J. PAGE, Barbara L. Wilson, Velma Fussell, Lillie R. English, Linda Redden, Diane Travis, Mildred Shackelford, Susan K. Conners, Mary M. Hughes, Donna Lee McNulty, Veronica Piedra, Cecilia A. Magias, Belinda Garcia, for themselves individually and on behalf of all similar female nonsupervisory employees of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, Appellants,
v.
SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Missouri Corporation, Appellee.
COMMUNICATION WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, Appellant,
v.
SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Missouri Corporation, Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Submitted January 8, 1979.
Decided August 2, 1979.
As Modified on Denial of Rehearing August 30, 1979.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Louis Gilden, St. Louis, Mo., argued and on brief, for appellant Page et al.
John C. Garavaglia, Raskas, Ruthmeyer, Pomerantz & Wynne, St. Louis, Mo. (argued), and Jerome F. Raskas, St. Louis, Mo., on brief, for appellant Communication Workers.
Leo E. Eikhoff, Jr., Southwestern Bell, Legal Dept., St. Louis, Mo. (argued), Jack C. Lorenz, John D. Rahoy, James A. Daugherty, Thad Hollie, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., on brief, for appellee.
Before LAY, BRIGHT, and ROSS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
Appellants in these class actions1 allege that the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (Bell) discriminates against women by denying female employees on maternity leave disability benefits, refusing to extend full seniority credit to female employees on maternity leave, and operating a mandatory maternity leave program, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of...
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