Legal Opinion
Mary R. Wells v. General Motors Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 28, 1989No. 88-4665PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
We review here another case involving alleged promises made and broken in the highly-charged environment of large-scale layoffs and shifts in the labor market.1 The thirty-two plaintiffs in this action are former employees at the Packard Electric plant, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation (“GM”), in Clinton, Mississippi. When GM announced layoffs in 1983, it negotiated with the union a separation agreement, according to which employees could opt for a severance payment in lieu of preserving their seniority and rehire rights. At meetings to explain the…
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