Legal Opinion
Matthews v. Milwaukee Area Local Postal Workers Union
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 23, 2007No. 06-3211PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
Rodney Matthews, a former employee of the United States Postal Service (“Postal Service”), filed suit against his union, the Milwaukee Area..Local of the American Postal Workers. Union, AFL-CIO (“the union”), claiming that it had failed to represent him fairly. in connection with a grievance, that it had filed on his behalf. The district court granted summary judgment to the union. Matthews appeals, and we affirm.
I. Background
On September 18, 2003, Rick Montgomery, a Postal Service branch manager, found Matthews standing by his locker away from his work station.…
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