Opinion ID: 339209
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Heading: The District Court's Decree

Text: 16 The district court issued an injunction designed to prevent future racial discrimination in employment at the Broadview plant. We affirm all of the decree except for subsection (A)(1) 2 calling for vacancies in hourly positions to be filled by the employee with the highest seniority on the shift on which the vacancy occurs. The record shows that while about two-thirds of the hourly clerk's jobs are on the day shift, about two-thirds of the black hourly employees work on the night shift. Therefore, a rule that seniority can only be used to obtain a promotion within the same shift on which it was accrued will have the effect of locking a majority of the black employees who have suffered discrimination into an inferior status. Accordingly, the decree should be modified to call for vacancies in hourly clerk positions to be filled by the employee with the greatest seniority, regardless of on what shift he is working or accrued that seniority.