Legal Opinion
Robert C. Schmidt v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 949
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 1, 1992No. 91-3457PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Robert Schmidt appeals the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment dismissing his claim that Local 949 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers breached its duty of fair representation when it refused to arbitrate Schmidt’s severance pay grievance. We affirm.
I
Schmidt was a member of Local 949 and a sixteen-year employee of Continental Telephone Company of Minnesota (“Con-tel”) when a job-related knee injury disabled him in May 1988. Despite surgery and rehabilitation, Schmidt could not return to his position as a telephone lineman, and he filed a claim…
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