Bilinski v. Delco Appliance Division, General Motors Corp.

The plaintiff, a former employee of the defendants, seeks money damages for wrongful discharge. During his employment as a laborer by the defendants, he was a member of Local 509, International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, AFL-CIO, which had entered into a collective bargaining agreement with defendants for and on behalf of the plaintiff and other factory employees. Pursuant to this agreement, it was provided that the union was designated as the sole agency to,negotiate collective bargaining arrangements for the plaintiff and the other employees and the agreement further…