Legal Opinion
Boston & Maine Corp. v. Lenfest
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 2, 1986No. 86-1039PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
Respondents-appellants, the General Committee of Adjustment of the United Transportation Union (the General Committee) and its individual officers and local chairmen, appeal an order of the district court preliminarily enjoining them from “engaging in a general strike or refusing to work” over alleged hazardous conditions on the railroad of petitioner-appellee Boston and Maine Corporation (B & M). Appellants claim that a work stoppage on November 4, 1985, which halted freight operations and left 25,000 commuters without service to Boston, was a valid refusal to work…
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