Legal Opinion
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen v. United Transportation Union
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 5, 2012No. 11-4177PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal concerns a three-cornered dispute between two unions — the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) and the United Transportation Union (UTU) — and an employer — the Norfolk Southern Railway Company (Norfolk) — that bargains with both of them. UTU filed a grievance on behalf of two of its members at Norfolk who alleged that they lost their seniority upon promotion from trainmen to engineers. The trouble was that BLET’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA), which they came under upon becoming engineers, assigned seniority based…
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