Buffalo Forge Company v. United Steelworkers of America, Afl-Cio

J. JOSEPH SMITH, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises a narrow but significant question of labor law of first impression in this court: If a union enters into a collective bargaining agreement establishing a mandatory arbitration procedure and including a no-strike clause and then later strikes solely out of deference to another union’s lawful picket line at a place of employment common to the two unions, does a federal district court have authority under § 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, 29 U.S.C. § 185(a), 1 to enjoin the strike or is it precluded from granting injunctive…