Legal Opinion
Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co., Consolidated Rail Corporation, Csx Transportation, Inc. v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 4, 2004No. 03-3626PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Chief Judge.
Six freight rail carriers brought this action under the Railway Labor Act (“RLA”) 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq., seeking injunctive relief against threatened strikes by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (“BLE”). The BLE threatened to strike in response to the rail carriers’ decisions to adopt remote control technology and to employ members of a rival union to operate the remote control devices. The district court concluded that the dispute was a “minor dispute” subject to mandatory arbitration under § 3 First of the RLA, 45 U.S.C. § 153 First (i) and granted a preliminary…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Chicago & North Western Railway Co. v. United Transportation UnionSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
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- Centurion Reinsurance Company, Limited, Plaintiff-Counterdefendant-Appellee v. Howard S. Singer and L. Steven Medgyesy, Defendants-CounterplaintiffsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1987
- Joe Stewart v. General Motors Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1985
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