Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Co. v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen

AMENDED OPINION

STRANCH, Circuit Judge.

We are asked to decide whether the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company (the Railroad) and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) are engaged in a major or a minor dispute under the Railway Labor Act (RLA). The district court entered a preliminary injunction barring BLET from taking any economic action against the Railroad, finding that the parties were engaged in a minor dispute. Because we determine the parties’ dispute over the Railroad’s use of supervisors as conductors is major, not minor, we REVERSE the district court’s holding…