Dian v. United Steelworkers of America

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

When plaintiff’s employer, defendant Reading Metals Refining Corporation (Reading Metals), suspended and later discharged him in January 1975, he complained to the grievance committeeman of defendant United Steelworkers of America (union), to which he belonged, that Reading Metals failed to notify him of the charges against him, that he had merely refused to take a work assignment and had requested to take sick leave before he left the work area, and that the Reading Metals penalty of discharge was discriminatory because the company had not…