Read the following story and then answer these questions: Does the seniority system violate Title VII? Explain. STORY: Patricia Lorance is an hourly wage employee at the Montgomery Works AT&T electronics products plant.� She had been employed there since the early 1970s and under union rules accrued seniority through her years of service at the plant.� In 1979, the union entered into a new collective bargaining agreement providing that seniority would be determined by department and not on a plant-wide basis.� The effect of the change was to put Ms. Lorance at the bottom of the seniority ladder in the testing areas despite her longevity in the plant.� When layoffs became necessary, she and the other female testers were laid off because of the new seniority rule.� Without the new rule, Ms. Lorance and the other women would not have been victims of the cutbacks.� [Lorance v. AT&T Technologies, Inc., 490 U.S. 900 (1989).]