Legal Opinion
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA v. United Air Lines, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided July 21, 2005No. 05 C 3172Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
DER-YEGHIAYAN, District Judge.
This matter is before the court on Appellant Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO’s (“AFA”) appeal from a bankruptcy judge’s ruling in this matter. For the reasons stated below, we affirm the ruling of the bankruptcy court.
BACKGROUND
On December 9, 2002, Appellee United Air Lines, Inc. (“United”) and twenty-seven of its affiliates entered into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. During the bankruptcy proceedings, United filed a motion to reject the collective bargaining agreements with each of the six labor unions that represented United’s employees…
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