United States v. Praxedis Portillo-Gonzalez

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• holding that employees need not exhaust contractual remedies where the bargaining representative and the employer colluded to deny promotions to employees
• holding that employees alleging racial discrimination on the part of the group responsible for filing grievances on the employees’ behalf do not need to exhaust their contractual remedies
• observing that discrimination against employees by both the union and the employers made pursuit of contractual remedies “wholly futile”
• holding petitioners sufficiently alleged futility by asserting they made “repeated complaints to company and union officials” to file grievance
• claiming that both union and management were discriminating against black employees
• identifying a third exception \where the effort to proceed formally with contractual or administrative remedies would be wholly futile\

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