UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA v. TEXTRON, INC.

No. 87-1241.

836 F.2d 6 (1987)

UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. TEXTRON, INC., Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 9, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason Berger, P.C. with whom Ruth L. Kaplan and Peabody & Brown, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

William T. Payne, Asst. General Counsel, Pittsburgh, Pa., with whom Bernard Kleiman, Chicago, Ill., General Counsel, Warren H. Pyle and Angoff, Goldman, Manning, Pyle, Wanger & Hiatt, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for appellee.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, GARTH, Senior Circuit Judge, and BREYER, Circuit Judge.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

This case arises out of a dispute over the meaning of language in several collective bargaining agreements between the Steelworkers Union and Textron. The Steelworkers Union, representing metalworkers who retired from Textron's Waterbury Farrel Division, says the language means Textron must guarantee the payment of health and life insurance premiums for the rest of those retired workers' lives; Textron disagrees. The district court issued a...

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