United Mine Workers of America, District No. 2, and United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 1269 v. Barnes & Tucker Co

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant United Mine Workers (“the Union”) initiated this action under section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, 29 U.S.C. § 185 (1970), to obtain specific enforcement of certain grievance settlements negotiated by the Union with Barnes & Tucker Co. (“the employer”). The district court dismissed the action on the ground that the matters raised by the Union were exclusively within the grievance procedures established by the parties’ collective bargaining agreements and that the court therefore had no equitable power to deal with them.…