Byrne v. Mass Transit Administration

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

This appeal concerns a discharged employee, the employer that fired him, the union that represented him, and the ruling of the trial court that dismissed the employee’s subsequent suit against both employer and union.

We shall uphold the trial court’s ruling in part and reverse in part, remanding the matter for possible further proceedings.

Before we begin our discussion of the law applicable to the matter sub judice, we shall recount the facts out of which this litigation arose.

During a surveillance of the Main Shops of the Mass Transit Administration (MTA), that agency’s…