Mack O'Neal Alexander and William L. Caldwell v. International Union of Operating Engineers, Afl-Cio, Etc.

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

A local union’s business agent, apparently on direction from the international union’s president, signed a binding project agreement on behalf of the local, even though the local’s membership had unanimously declined on two prior occasions to participate in the project, and despite the presence of a provision in the parent union’s constitution that collective bargaining agreements must be approved by a majority of the affected local. The issue in this case is whether the respective unions’ actions created causes of action on behalf of two individual local members against…