E. E. O. C. v. AIR LINE PILOTS ASS'N, ETC.

Nos. 80-1792, 80-1850.

661 F.2d 90 (1981)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Appellee, v. AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL AND NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy D. Clark, Gen. Counsel, Philip B. Sklover Acting Associate Gen. Counsel, Vincent Blackwood, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Marcia B. Ruskin, Atty. (argued), Washington, D. C., for E.E.O.C.

Michael E. Abram, Jay P. Levy-Warren (argued), Cohen, Weiss & Simon, New York City, Robert V. Atmore, Lindquist & Vennum, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant-appellant, Air Line Pilots Association, International.

Dorsey, Windhorst, Hannaford, Whitney & Halladay, David Ranheim, Robert Bayer, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellant Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Before ROSS, Circuit Judge, GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.


ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought this suit on behalf of Northwest Airline pilots entering their year of normal retirement,1 claiming that a collective-bargaining agreement discriminatorily gives age-60 pilots less favorable vacation benefits than younger retiring pilots. The defendants are Northwest Airlines, Inc., the employer, and Air Line Pilots Ass'n, Int'l (ALPA), the union representing Northwest...

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