Goclowski v. Penn Central Transportation Co.

OPINION

WEBER, Chief Judge.

This is a law suit filed by thirteen individual railroad employees against their union, the Transport Workers Union of America, and their employer, Penn Central. Their complaint challenges the validity of an agreement executed November 1, 1972, between the Union and the employer which adversely affected their seniority rights. The complaint requested that the agreement be invalidated because 1) it was an impermissible extension of the collective bargaining agreement then in effect, 2) it was not properly ratified by the union membership, including plaintiffs, and 3)…