Section 11 Antidiscrimination Statutes

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

A union owes duties to its members arising from legal sources other than its duty of fair representation (DFR). Many of those duties originate in federal antidiscrimination statutes, which have been written to include unions as covered entities. Accordingly, unions may be liable for the following:

• Discrimination against members based on race, color, sex, religion, or national origin, as prohibited in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(c) of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e et seq. A union may not exclude or expel members based on those...