BYRD v. LOCAL UNION NO. 24, INT. BRO. OF ELECTRICAL WKRS.

Civ. A. No. 72-848-M.

375 F.Supp. 545 (1974)

Nathaniel C. BYRD et al., Plaintiffs, and Eddie Hudson, Individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, Intervening Plaintiff, v. LOCAL UNION NO. 24, INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Maryland.

March 19, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan S. Davis, Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., and Kenneth L. Johnson, Baltimore, Md., Dennis R. Yeager and E. Richard Larson, National Employment Law Project, New York City, for plaintiffs.

James P. Garland, Carl E. Eastwick, and Thomas E. Bracken, Baltimore, Md., and Thomas X. Dunn and Robert L. Barton, Jr., Washington, D. C., for Local Union No. 24, I.B.E.W., and Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee.

James P. Garland and Carl E. Eastwick, Baltimore, Md., for Maryland Chapter N.E.C.A., Howard P. Foley, Inc., and Howard P. Foley, individually and as co-counsel for the Electrical Industry.

Leonard E. Cohen and Monte Fried, Baltimore, Md., for Mechanical Contractors, Sheet Metal Contractors, Baltimore Steamfitters, Lloyd E. Mitchell, Plumbers & Gasfitters, and Trustees, Steamfitters Local 438, Medical Fund.

Stanley Mazaroff, Baltimore, Md., for Piracci Const. Co., Inc.

Cosimo C. Abato and Anthony A. Abato, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for Baltimore Steamfitters, Trustees, Maryland Electrical Industry Welfare Fund, Baltimore Steamfitters' Area Joint Apprenticeship Committee, and Trustees, Steamfitters Local 438, Medical Fund.

Paul E. Gaeng and John J. Hirsch, Baltimore, Md., for Baltimore Sheet Metal Workers and Plumbers and Gasfitters Joint Apprenticeship Committee, Locals 37, 37A, 37B, 37R, and 122, and Trustees of the Health and Welfare Funds of Local 48.

Stanley Mazaroff, Baltimore, Md., for Steel Erectors Assn., Associated Gen. Contractors, and Ehrhardt & May, Inc.

W. Hamilton Whiteford and Nevett Steele, Jr., of Baltimore, Md., for Trustees of the Health and Welfare Fund of Sheet Metal Workers Local 122.

John H. Somerville, Baltimore, Md., for R. E. Linder Steel Erection.

Sidney Blum, Baltimore, Md., for Trustees of the Health & Welfare Funds, Local Union No. 16, Local No. 16, Joint Apprenticeship Training Committee, and Local Union No. 16, Intern. Assn. of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Ironworkers.


JAMES R. MILLER, Jr., District Judge.

This action has been brought by 10 individual plaintiffs, for themselves and as putative representatives of a class of persons allegedly similarly situated, against labor unions, contractors and others associated with one or more of six trades forming a part of what could generically be called "the building industry" in the Greater Baltimore area. The gravamen of the plaintiffs' complaint...

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