Law for Business 10th Edition by James Barnes,Terry Dworkin,Eric Richards

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As a part of its collective bargaining agreement with the United Steelworkers of America, the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company established a new on-the-job craft training program at one of its plants. The selection of trainees for the program was based on seniority, but at least 50 percent of the new trainees had to be black until the percentage of black skilled craft workers in the plant approximated the percentage of blacks in the local labor force. Brian Weber, a rejected white applicant, would have qualified for the program if the racial preference had not existed. Weber argued that Kaiser's affirmative action program violated federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race. Is Kaiser's affirmative action program legal? Explain.