Aeronautical District Lodge No. 70 v. Beech Aircraft Corp.

Rees, J.:

Plaintiff and defendant are parties to a collective bargaining agreement containing grievance procedure provisions. Two sets of grievances were asserted by employees of defendant who are members of plaintiff. One was that of J. R. Dennis and J. A. Orton (Dennis grievance); the other was that of S. J. Chrisman, D. L. Sander and W. J. McGovern (Chrisman grievance). Upon failure to achieve mutually acceptable disposition of the two grievances, plaintiff brought this lawsuit. Without pretrial, the case was tried to the court without a jury on an amended petition alleging the existence of…