Sipes v. Vaca

HOLMAN, Judge.

This action was instituted by Benjamin Owens, Jr., a discharged employee of Swift & Company and a member of the union, as a class action against the membership of the national and local union of the National Brotherhood of Packing House Workers. Certain officers of said unions were individually named as defendants representative of the class. Owens sought to recover actual and punitive damages resulting from his alleged wrongful discharge and the failure of the union to process his protest through all of the administrative appellate procedures provided for in the Master…