Alexander v. United States

The plaintiffs, twenty-six in number, bring this suit claiming that their pay as employees of the United States Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn, New York was illegally reduced.

For some time prior to 1956 the plaintiffs and numerous other persons, a total of 127, were employed in the shipyard with the classification and pay of Toolroom Mechanics. The Civil Service Commision authorized the Office of Industrial Relations of the Navy to establish a new rating of Toolroom Attendant. That Office established the rating on June 29, 1955, and the shipyard requested and received authority to use it. That…