Legal Opinion
Johnnie Bonds v. The Coca-Cola Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 1986No. 85-2597PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Johnnie Bonds and 36 other truck drivers were employed by Midwest Machinery Movers under an industry-wide collective bargaining agreement to which Midwest and Local 710 of the Teamsters were parties. Midwest provided transportation services for The Coca-Cola Company. In 1982 Coca-Cola moved some of its operations from Chicago to St. Paul, Minnesota. It terminated its contract with Midwest, which in turn laid off the drivers. The drivers, asserting that Midwest was an alter ego of Coca-Cola, invoked a provision of the collective bargaining agreement providing that…
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