Legal Opinion
Bell v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 29, 2008No. 07-2239, 07-2263PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Pursuant to section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185(a), the plaintiffs-appellants brought suit in the district court alleging that defendant-appellee DaimlerChrysler Corporation (“Chrysler”) breached its contractual obligations to certain workers laid off in the late 1970s and early 1980s by failing to recall these workers for job openings at Chrysler’s plants in Kokomo, Indiana. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of Chrysler, reasoning in part that the plaintiffs had failed to exhaust their intra-union remedies prior to…
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