Soo Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

OPINION AND ORDER

JOAN H. LEFKOW, Judge

This case arises from a labor dispute between Soo Line Railroad Company (“Soo”) and two unions, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (“BLET”) and the United Transportation Union (“UTU”), about the creation of a cross-border freight pool between Thief River Falls, Minnesota and Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Soo initiated the suit, seeking a declaratory judgment that the dispute is subject to mandatory arbitration under the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. §§ 151 et seq. (“RLA”). (Dkt. 1.) The unions counterclaimed and requested the court declare that the…