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TERRELL v. UNITED STATES PIPE & FOUNDRY CO.

Nos. 80-7107, 80-7256.

644 F.2d 1112 (1981)

Joseph TERRELL, Walter Dudley, Thomas Green, Johnny Long, Albert Mason, Marcus Oakes, Sam Walker, on behalf of themselves and the class they represent, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES PIPE & FOUNDRY CO. et al., Defendants, Local 2140, United Steelworkers Union Local 342, International Molders, Allied Workers Union, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Joseph TERRELL, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES PIPE & FOUNDRY CO. et al., Defendants, Local 2140, United Steelworkers Union, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied August 7, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Demetruis C. Newton, Birmingham, Ala., Barry L. Goldstein, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., Washington, D.C., Jack Greenberg, New York City, for plaintiffs-appellants in both cases.

Joseph P. Hudson, Gulfport, Miss., Daniel B. Edelman, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants in 80-7107.

Lutz Alecander Prager, Paul E. Mirengoff, Warren Duplinsky, Gen. Counsels, EEOC, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae in both cases.

Bredoff, Barr, Gottesman, Cohen & Peer, Michael H. Gottesman, Washington, D.C., for Patternmakers League of North America, and United Steelworkers of America.

Thomas F. Phalen, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Washington, D.C., for Int. Molders & Allied Workers Union & Local 342.

J. R. Goldthwaite, Jr., Atlanta, Ga., for Internat'l Assoc. of Machinist of Aerospace, Etc. & Boilermakers.

N. Daniel Rogers, Donald H. Brockway, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for Local Union 136.

Before FAY and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and GROOMS, District Judge.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied August 7, 1981.

HATCHETT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal stems from a class action employment discrimination suit brought in 1972 under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(c), and section 1981 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1981, by black employees at the Bessemer, Alabama plant of U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company against their employer and their union representatives.

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