21 Fair empl.prac.cas. 684, 21 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 30,459 Social Services Union, Local 535, Service Employees International Union, Afl-Cio and Local 715, Service Employees International Union, Afl-Cio v. County of Santa Clara

609 F.2d 944 21 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. 684 , 21 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 30,459 SOCIAL SERVICES UNION, LOCAL 535, SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION, AFL-CIO; and Local 715, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, Defendant-Appellee. No. 76-1099. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Dec. 12, 1979. David A. Rosenfeld, Vanbourg, Allen, Weinberg, Williams & Roger, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellants. Steven Woodside, San Jose, Cal., for defendant-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before BROWNING and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges, and KUNZIG, * Judge, Court of Claims. BROWNING, Circuit Judge: 1 The two appellant unions brought this action under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e, Et seq., on behalf of female employees of appellee County of Santa Clara. The unions alleged that the County paid employees in predominantly female job classifications less than it paid employees in predominantly male classifications for substantially similar work. 2 After initial discovery, the unions sought an order under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b) (2)…