Legal Opinion
John Morrell & Co. v. Local Union 304A of the United Food & Commercial Workers
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 7, 1990No. Nos. 89-5109, 89-5152PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The Unions representing workers at John Morrell & Company’s plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota appeal a $24.6 million jury award entered against them in favor of Morrell. The jury found that the Unions had breached the no-strike clause of the parties' collective bargaining agreement by engaging in sympathy strikes. The district court,1 708 F.Supp. 273, entered judgment for Morrell and also vacated an arbitration award, issued between the liability and damages phases of the bifurcated jury trial, that had held that the no-strike clause did not bar sympathy…
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