JOHN MORRELL & CO. v. LOCAL UNION 304A

Nos. 89-5109, 89-5152.

913 F.2d 544 (1990)

JOHN MORRELL & COMPANY, Appellee, v. LOCAL UNION 304A OF the UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS, AFL-CIO; United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO and CLC; Dennis Foster, Individually and in his capacity as president of defendant Local 304A; James R. Lyons, Individually and in his capacity as Business Representative and Corresponding Secretary of defendant Local 304A; John Doe and Other Persons Unknown, Appellants. JOHN MORRELL & COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee, v. LOCAL UNION 304A OF the UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS, AFL-CIO AND CLC; United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, AFL-CIO and CLC, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 7, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence Gold, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

George A. Joseph, Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before McMILLIAN, JOHN R. GIBSON and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

The Unions representing workers at John Morrell & Company's plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota appeal a $24.6 million jury award entered against them in favor of Morrell. The jury found that the Unions had breached the no-strike clause of the parties' collective bargaining agreement by engaging in sympathy strikes. The district court,1 708 F.Supp. 273, entered judgment...

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