Benson v. General Motors Corp.

Plaintiffs/appellants are all employees of appellee General Motors Corporation and are members of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (“UAW”). Appellants allege that in 1978 GM and the UAW entered into an agreement whereby persons employed in GM’s plants throughout the United States would be given “preferential consideration” for hiring in certain new GM plants being opened primarily in the southeast. As part of this preferential consideration, an employee would give up any seniority he had established in his or her existing job…