Legal Opinion
American Postal Workers Union, Afl-Cio v. United States Postal Service
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 9, 1991No. 90-5022PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:
In this action we review the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants in a suit challenging the U.S. Postal Service’s dismissal of four probationary employees. We hold that the applicable collective bargaining agreement leaves these probationary postal employees with no contractual means of challenging their dismissals and that the Federal Tort Claims Act affords them no right of action for retaliatory dismissal.
I. BACKGROUND
The appellants, plaintiffs below, are four former probationary postal…
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