East St. Louis Laborers' Local 100 v. Bellon Wrecking & Salvage Company

FLAUM, Chief Judge.

A collective bargaining agreement (“CBA”) obligates defendant Bellon Wrecking & Salvage Company to hire members of plaintiff East St. Louis Laborers’ Local 100 to do certain highway construction work. Bellon and the union amended the agreement orally to permit the employer some latitude to use labor from outside Local 100 on a project in southwestern Illinois. The parties disagree about the extent of the oral amendments. When work slowed, Bellon laid off a member of Local 100 instead of a laborer from a neighboring union. Local 100 believed this violated the agreement as…