Meola v. Bethlehem Steel Co.

Angelo P. Meóla filed suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Baltimore City against Bethlehem Steel Company (Bethlehem), the International Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America and its Local Number 24 (the two unions are hereafter referred to collectively as “the Unions” and separately as the International Union and Local 24). In his amended declaration, with which was filed an election of jury trial, Meóla asserted, as his cause of action against Bethlehem, that after he was furloughed from his employment as a second class ship-fitter on or about July 22, 1959, Bethlehem…