(DOWNLOAD) "Rodriguez v. East Texas Motor Freight" by United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Rodriguez v. East Texas Motor Freight
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 25, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 89 KB
Description
In this employment discrimination case the plaintiffs-appellants attack two ubiquitous practices in the trucking industry: (1) the trucking companies requirement that "city drivers" resign from their city driver jobs before applying for the more lucrative and sought-after "road" or "line driver" positions, and (2) the companies rule preventing city drivers from carrying their seniority to road driver jobs. The plaintiffs, Mexican-American city drivers for East Texas Motor Freight (ETMF), brought this action below as a class action, contending that these facially neutral practices of ETMF and the defendant union organizations perpetuate the effects of past discriminatory hiring practices and thus violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 42 U.S.C. § 1981. The district court found that the cause of action was inappropriate for a class action, and that none of the defendants had violated Title VII or Section 1981. We reverse.