IN RE CENTURY BRASS PRODUCTS, INC.

No. 752, Docket 85-5092.

795 F.2d 265 (1986)

In re CENTURY BRASS PRODUCTS, INC., Debtor. CENTURY BRASS PRODUCTS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA, and its LOCAL 1604, Defendants-Appellants. Creditors' Committee, Party-in-Interest.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Nicholson, Detroit, Mich. (Jordan Rossen, Intern. Union, UAW, Detroit, Mich., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Thomas M. Cloherty, Hartford, Conn. (John M. Oleyer, Lissa J. Paris, Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Lewis K. Wise, Hartford, Conn. (Jerome E. Caplan, Rogin, Nassau, Caplan, Lassman & Hirtle, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), pro hac vice for Creditors' Committee.

Before KAUFMAN and CARDAMONE, Circuit Judges, and WYZANSKI, District Judge.


CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal deals with one aspect of the existing tension between the Bankruptcy Code and the National Labor Relations Act. Today companies in financial distress often look to the bankruptcy court for protection from deregulation, litigation, ruinous international competition and other economic hardships. Under Chapter 11 of the Code a debtor may be allowed to modify its existing labor agreements and thereby reduce costs. On the other hand...

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