General Electric Co. v. Local 761, International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers

O’SULLIVAN, Circuit Judge.

We here consider the appeals of appellant unions1 from a declaratory judg*892ment entered in favor of the plaintiff-appellee, General Electric Company, (GE). We also have before us the unions’ motion to dismiss the cause on the ground that the issues involved became moot after the appeal was docketed in this Court. We grant this motion for the reasons discussed below.

GE and appellant International Union were the signatories to a collective bargaining contract, referred to as the GE-IUE National Agreement, covering all of GE’s production and maintenance employees at…