Csx Transportation, Incorporated v. United Transportation Union Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers

OPINION

WILKINSON, Chief Judge:

This case requires us to assess the propriety of a district court’s anti-strike injunction, which was issued to enforce an arbitration decision made pursuant to the Interstate Commerce Act (“ICA”). CSX Transportation sought to consolidate four separate railroads that it had acquired. The unions representing the railroads’ employees opposed the consolidation. After the arbitrator’s award in favor of CSX’s proposed consolidation was upheld by the Interstate Commerce Commission (“ICC”), the unions threatened a strike. CSX then obtained an injunction prohibiting that…