Food Handlers Local 425 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, Afl--Cio v. Valmac Industries, Inc.

The appellant, Valmac Industries, Inc., fashioned this unbelievably strange situation out of what Shakespeare would call “a quicksand of deceit.” The appellee, Food Handlers Local 425 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO, gave notice to Valmac on February 28, 1974, that it would elect to terminate its labor contract on June 29, 1974. No new contract was agreed to by the time of the deadline, and thus a strike of employees began on July 1, 1974. Two days prior to the strike the parties had agreed that certain provisions of the old contract would be…