Southern Pacific Transportation Company v. L.S. Young

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Facts and Disposition Below

This appeal concerns Southern Pacific’s attempts to free itself from an imbroglio between warring factions of a union of its workers. The dramatis personae are as follows: Southern Pacific, whose purchase (through a subsidiary) of new trackage sparked this dispute; Eastern Line employees, those workers who operate Southern Pacific Lines east of El Paso; Western Lines employees, their west-of-El Paso colleagues. Both sets of employees are affiliated with the United Transportation Union (UTU), which has acted as honest broker throughout the…