Legal Opinion
United Paperworkers International Union & Its Local 340 v. Specialty Paperboard, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 19, 1993No. 1523, Docket 93-7093PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
The facts of the case are simple: on Friday, March 15, 1991, defendant Specialty Paperboard Inc. (“SPI”) sold a paper mill located in Sheldon Springs, Vermont to defendant Rock-Tenn Co. (“RTC”) and terminated the jobs of all 232 employees of the mill. That same day, RTC rehired 141 of these employees. On March 13, 1992, the United Paper-workers International Union and Local 340 (the “union”) brought suit on behalf of the laid-off employees under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“WARN”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 2101 et seq. (1988). The union alleged that SPI and…
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