Legal Opinion
Murphy v. United Steelworkers Local No. 5705
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided April 18, 1986No. 83-422-AppealPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KELLEHER, Justice.
On September 1, 1974, more than 500 production employees of the Washburn Wire Company plant located in East Providence were on strike. The strikers, who were members of local No. 5705 of the United Steelworkers of America, AFL-CIO, had set up a picket line in front of the Bourne Avenue entrance to Washburn’s plant. The plaintiff, Edward T. Murphy, was director of plant safety and part of the management team. Once the strike began, he worked six days a week, twelve hours a day, as a crane operator. Hereafter we shall refer to the plaintiff as “Murphy” and to the…
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