Legal Opinion
Self v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided November 23, 1998No. 24859PublishedCited by 308 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
McKINNON, Justice.
{1} We reverse the trial court’s decision that state Minimum Wage Act claims brought by union workers covered by a collective-bargaining agreement are preempted by Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, ch. 120, tit. Ill, § 301(a), 61 Stat. 156 (codified at 29 U.S.C. § 185(a) (1994)). We hold that these claims were not preempted because they are based on nonnegotiable state law rights, and can be resolved independent of any collective-bargaining agreement. For the same reasons, we hold that these workers are not required to exhaust the remedies provided in…
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