REPUBLIC STEEL CORP. v. U. M. W. OF AMERICA

Nos. 77-1350, 77-2037, 77-2038.

570 F.2d 467 (1978)

REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant in No. 77-1350, v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, United Mine Workers of America, District No. 5, United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 9873, United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 688, Gerald Abbott, Theodore Spazok, Peter Trbovich, Nick Paskovich, and Robert Famularo. REPUBLIC STEEL CORPORATION, Appellant in No. 77-2037, v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, United Mine Workers of America, District No. 5, United Mine Workers of America, Sub-District No. 3, United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 9873, United Mine Workers of America, Local No. 688, Gerald Abbott, Theodore Spazok, Peter Trbovich, Nick Paskovich, Robert Famularo, John Doe, and Richard Roe. Appeal of INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, in No. 77-2038.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided February 2, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard I. Thomas, John T. Ferguson, II, Thorp, Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Republic Steel Corp.

Harrison Combs, Gen. Counsel, United Mine Workers of America, Washington, D. C., Melvin P. Stein, Lee A. Lazar, Kuhn, Engle & Stein, Pittsburgh, Pa., for International Union, United Mine Workers of America.

Before ALDISERT and WEIS, Circuit Judges, and CHRISTENSEN, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated appeals ask us to consider the liability of an international union, a district, sub-district, and two locals of that union, as well as individual union officers, for money damages sustained by an employer as the result of allegedly illegal work stoppages by union employees.

Republic Steel Corporation [Republic], which owns and operates coal mines in Washington County, Pennsylvania ...

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