Davis v. Boise Cascade Corp.

SHERAN, Chief Justice.

In this action for wrongful discharge, plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment ordered in defendant’s favor, urging that the trial court erred in holding he was required to exhaust administrative remedies provided by the collective bargaining agreement between defendant and Local 159, United Paperworkers International Union, AFL-CIO (the union representing defendant’s employees) before he could bring the action and in further holding that Minn. Stat. ch. 182 (1978), the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973, does not authorize an individual cause of action for…