Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for a “labor organization” to “exclude or to expel from its membership, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin . . . .” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(c)(1). Some states have laws with similar provisions as well. The Fairness Center has represented clients who believed that a union had discriminated against them on an unlawful basis.

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