BRO. OF LOCOMOTIVE v. ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE

No. 84-3177.

768 F.2d 914 (1985)

BROTHERHOOD OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY COMPANY, and United Transportation Union, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided July 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold A. Ross, Ross & Kraushaar Co., L.P.A., Cleveland, Ohio, for plaintiff-appellant.

John J. Naughton, Henslee Monek & Henslee, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD and POSNER, Circuit Judges, and WEIGEL, Senior District Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers sued the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, lost, and appeals, presenting us with interesting questions under the Railway Labor Act.

In the glory days of the railroads, generally a worker became a locomotive engineer by promotion from the ranks of the firemen after having been a fireman for at least three years, and his seniority as an engineer dated from the promotion, not from when he had...

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