Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

In the wake of an announcement in April 1997 by Norfolk Southern Corporation and CSX Corporation that they were acquiring and dividing a major portion of the assets of Conrail, Inc., the Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen, a union representing employees of the corporations’ railroad subsidiaries, gave notice under § 6 of the Railway Labor Act that it wished to renegotiate the terms of its collective bargaining agreements in light of the impact that the acquisition would have on the jobs of employees represented by the union. The district court ruled that the…