Ryherd v. General Cable Co.

Plaintiff filed suit claiming she was terminated from her job for exercising her rights under the Workers’ Compensation Act (Act) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 48, par. 138.1 et seq.). Her action followed an adverse decision entered by an arbitrator upon full exhaustion of the grievance procedures provided for in the collective-bargaining agreement in effect between plaintiff’s former employer and her union. The circuit court of Piatt County held that the plaintiff’s retaliatory-discharge tort action was preempted by Federal labor law and granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment.…