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E.E.O.C. v. STEAMSHIP CLERKS UNION, LOCAL 1066

Nos. 94-1621, 94-1656.

48 F.3d 594 (1995)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. STEAMSHIP CLERKS UNION, LOCAL 1066, Defendant, Appellant. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. STEAMSHIP CLERKS UNION, LOCAL 1066, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 28, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher N. Souris, with whom Thomas F. Birmingham and Feinberg, Charnas & Birmingham, Boston, MA, were on brief, for Local 1066.

Paul D. Ramshaw, Attorney, with whom James R. Neely, Jr., Deputy Gen. Counsel, Gwendolyn Young Reams, Associate Gen. Counsel, Vincent J. Blackwood, Asst. Gen. Counsel, and Lamont N. White, Washington, DC, Attorney, were on brief, for E.E.O.C.

Before SELYA, BOUDIN and STAHL, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Labor unions have historically been instruments of solidarity, forged in an ostensible effort to counterbalance the weight of concentrated industrial power. It is, therefore, ironic — but not unprecedentedly so, inasmuch as "irony is no stranger to the law," Amanullah v. Nelson, 811 F.2d 1, 17 (1st Cir.1987) — that unions themselves sometimes engage in exclusionary membership practices. The...

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