Ritacco v. Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiff has brought this action of assumpsit against his employer to recover damages for wages allegedly lost by the employer’s breach of the seniority provisions of a - collective bargaining agreement between the plaintiff’s union and his employer. The case is before us on the plaintiff’s exception to the ruling of the trial justice sustaining the defendant’s amended demurrer to the plaintiff’s amended declaration.

The plaintiff was a member in good standing of a certain union which had been duly certified as the exclusive bargaining agent of employees, including plaintiff, in…