District Court, N.D. Illinois September 20, 2016, No. 12 C 9844 (Porter v. Pipefitters Ass'n Local Union 597)

OPINION AND ORDER

SARA L. ELLIS, United States District Judge

Plaintiffs Duane Porter, Kenneth Black, Ronald Bouie, Ricky Brown, Samuel Clark, *899Frank Craddieth, Donald Gayles, and Steven Wilson, African American journeyman pipefitters who belonged to Defendant Pi-pefitters Association Local Union 597 (“Local 597”), claim that they and other African American pipefitters worked comparatively