The Percy Program

It is a fight to level the playing field to be able to compete for jobs and careers on the basis of skills and make available apprentice training to all. In 1973 Al Percy launched a class action lawsuit to give workers like him a chance to better their lot in life. It would also ensure the availability of skilled workers to build the infrastructure of the future.

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Docket #99 page 640, US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals appeal No. 17-2273, the Class certified in Percy v. Brennan, Federal District Court SDNY Case 73-cv-04279, reported at 384 F. Supp 800,

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1974-11-08; Filed

1974-11-08; Filed Memorandum #41415 motion granted Case allowing 17-2273, action Document to be maintained 71, 11/22/2017, as a 2179151, class action Page73 - of 215 certified 2017-07-24 doc 1 150, .152 (1970) 1 and second on whether tbe plaintiffs are "~·ri.thin t.hc: cla::::~; o.f per.'::;o:ns i:::hat the: ·-·- provi::;ion[s} 397 lJ .. S .. at 1!:)5 .. fondants assert, the denial of job opportunities alone, "the right not to be subjected to racial discrimination cb.a. ::~ge~d. -;.vi t.h_ e:~n fc:;rcen\::::r.j.t_ of Ex(~.c ui::.i-..:e Or de: r t-Jo ~ 11_ 2 4 fr; if th,::ey have, by a.pp:roval of t.b:::.~ New Yor}t Plan 1 failed to enfo.tce tion~ of the construction industry and has inflicted an injm~y 1 :\pon plc""tintiffs. Nor:J;c:iJk C. U. H. E. , .. l"~or'i·J

1974-11-08; Filed Memorandum #41415 motion granted Case allowing 17-2273, action Document to be maintained 71, 11/22/2017, as a class 2179151, action Page74 - of 215 certified 2017-07-24 doc 1 The private defendants challenge the standing o~ u.s. 415, 301 F. Supp. 1:346, l34tj (E.D.N.Y. 1969). an organization of black and Hispanic construction workers 'v!hich devotes the rnajor:Lt}'' of it':> ef:fort.s to obta:~ning which seeks t.o protect the c.ivi1 .?~i,;hts of black r:;c,o'c-sons. {AmendE"d Cor:1pla.i:nt., '\!4f 7, 29), and which has previouc;··· ly represented its members in ant~i-d).scrimina tion suits. 357 u.s. 449 (1958). In contrast to the organizational plaintiff in Sierra Club, which was found to lack standing because it f~iled to allege that ~ts members "would be significantly affected by the ... actions of the responden.-t:.s 1" _s_i_e_'J.?.E_a_~J.:.1~-~)-v_._~_-1(_:;_rtor~_, SUJ2_!a_, 405 U.S. at 735, both 15. 0656

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