ISLAND CREEK COAL v. LOCAL NO. 2232

Civ. A. No. 89-0053-B.

732 F.Supp. 666 (1990)

ISLAND CREEK COAL CO., Plaintiff, v. LOCAL NO. 2232, UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA, Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Virginia, Big Stone Gap Division.

March 14, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe Ashworth, Atlanta, Ga., Lynn Lloyd Laughlin, Greenville, S.C., and Stephen M. Hodges, Abingdon, Va., for plaintiff.

James Vergara, Hopewell, Va. and Stephen Vickers, Castlewood, Va., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

GLEN M. WILLIAMS, Senior District Judge.

The question presented by this case is whether a local union may be held liable for damages from a strike by its membership which was not instigated or led by officers of the local, under the "mass action" or agency theories of recovery, as a violation of an implied no-strike obligation in the labor agreement entered into between the parties.

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On March 22, 1989, the 12:00 A.M...

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