Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. v. Local Union No. 7

LASKER, District Judge.

This ease concerns the effectiveness of the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company’s attempted repudiation of an alleged collective bargaining agreement between it and Local Union No. 7, International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron-workers, AFL-CIO.

I

Whiting-Turner, a Maryland-based corporation which performs work throughout the United States, was engaged in 1997 by Sun Microsystems to serve as construction manager for a project located in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Shortly thereafter, while Whiting-Turner was in the midst of soliciting and evaluating…