DISTLER v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA

No. 82-2956.

711 F.2d 76 (1983)

Charles DISTLER, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard J. Ysursa, Sprague, Sprague & Ysursa, Belleville, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Barbara Chisholm Gumbel, Edwardsville, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before WOOD and ESCHBACH, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

In this action, plaintiffs, retired members of the United Mine Workers, seek to establish that they contractually acquired pension benefit rights through a letter sent to them from a local official of the defendant union in 1957 which solicited their membership in the union. The district court, concluding that it had jurisdiction under the Labor-Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 185(a), addressed the merits, and found...

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