NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC. v. TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION

No. 5202.

190 F.Supp. 495 (1961)

NORTHWEST AIRLINES, INC., Plaintiff, v. TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF AMERICA AFL-CIO and its Air Transport Local 523, Clifford W. Scott, George Hedrick and A. A. Krucovsky, individually and as Officers or Agents of said Union and Local No. 523, and as representatives of a class consisting of all Airline Navigators who are employees of plaintiff for whom said Transport Workers Union of America AFL-CIO or said Air Transport Local 523 is the duly designated representative, and each of them, Defendants.

United States District Court W. D. Washington, N. D.

January 23, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul W. Steere, of Skeel, McKelvy, Henke, Evenson and Uhlmann, Seattle, Wash., and Curtis Roy, of Dorsey, Owen, Barber, Marquart & Windhorst, Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiff.

Joseph S. Kane and John D. Spellman, of Kane & Spellman, Seattle, Wash., for defendants.


LINDBERG, Chief Judge.

This action was instituted to enjoin the defendants from engaging in a concerted refusal to report for work as ordered by their employer. Jurisdiction is allegedly founded upon 45 U.S.C.A. § 151 et seq., and 28 U.S.C. § 1331.

The plaintiff-employer is a certified common carrier by air, engaged in interstate and foreign commerce and providing both domestic and overseas service. The defendant-unions are the certified bargaining...

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