Reiter v. Midland Ross Corp.

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION

MANOS, District Judge.

On August 15,1983, plaintiffs, Albert Reiter, Otis Whitman, Tim Cole, and Donald S. Ford, filed the above-captioned case against their former employer, Midland Ross Corpo*983ration, their union, the United Steelworkers of America, and its Local 1477. On September 24, 1984, plaintiffs, Reiter, Whitman, and Louis Clyburn filed an amended complaint.1 Plaintiffs were employees of the defendant corporation until the plant in which they worked was permanently shut down. They allege that the international union wrongfully placed the local union under…