UNITED STEEL WORKERS v. CRAIG

88-1542.

571 So.2d 1101 (1990)

UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, et al. v. Robert CRAIG, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 21, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Kleiman, Gen. Counsel, and Carl B. Frankel, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, United Steelworkers of America and Franklin G. Shuler, Jr. and Jay Smith of Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, Birmingham, for appellants.

Collins Pettaway, Jr. of Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders, Williams & Pettaway, Selma, for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

We hold that the duty, if any, on which the plaintiffs' claims rest, arises solely out of federal labor law (the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 141 et seq.; and the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 151 et seq.). The fact that the plaintiffs couched their suit in language indicative of state-law claims does not create a state-law cause of action where, as here, a state-law claim does not otherwise exist. In other words, but...

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