Legal Opinion
Raymond E. Pawlowski v. Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 9, 1999No. 98-4287PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Raymond E. Pawlowski, a former railroad police officer, asks us to determine whether the Railway Labor Act (“RLA” or “Act”), 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., entitled him to union representation at an investigative interview conducted by his former employer, the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad Corporation d/b/a Metra (“Metra”). The district court dismissed Pawlowski’s claim, holding that because the RLA conferred no right to representation at initial hearings, and because the RLA appeal process pre-empt-ed consideration of any right that might have been conferred by…
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