AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS v. AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS

Nos. 79-2519, 79-2520.

665 F.2d 1096 (1981)

AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO, HEADQUARTERS LOCAL 6885, Earl Jones, President, Burlene Windell, Ronald Bernstein, Sidney Coplon, Lewis Gerlach, E. Victor Hobbs, and Marie Rose, Appellants, and Linneaus M. Parker, David C. Drake, Jay D. Fadley, Joseph E. Hannigan, Naguib M. Mikheal, Thomas Norman, and Eugene E. Nowak, Intervenor-Appellants, v. AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO, Emmet Andrews, President, Richard Wevodau, United States Postal Service, and Edward Ward, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided September 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel B. Edelman, Washington, D. C., with whom Charles R. Both, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Daniel B. Jordan, Washington, D. C., with whom Thomas P. Powers and Patrick J. Riley, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Emmet Andrews, and Richard Wevodau.

Sherryl A. Cagnoli, Supervisory Atty., U. S. Postal Service, Washington, D. C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty. and Stephen E. Alpern, Associate Gen. Counsel, U. S. Postal Service, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellees United States Postal Service and Edward Ward.

Robert F. Gore, Memphis, Tenn., for intervenor-appellants.

Before TAMM and MIKVA, Circuit Judges, and PHILIP NICHOLS, Jr., Judge, United States Court of Claims.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.

Opinion filed by Judge NICHOLS, concurring in part and dissenting in part.

MIKVA, Circuit Judge:

Appellants, a local union and its members, challenge a contract agreed to by their parent union, the American Postal Workers Union, and employer, the United States Postal Service. Seeking injunctive, declaratory, and compensatory relief, appellants argue that...

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