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SIMO v. UNION OF NEEDLETRADES, INDUS. & TEXTILE

No. 01-55937.

316 F.3d 974 (2003)

Tauni SIMO, Dalores Rowe, Maria Ramirez, Petra Villegas, Petra Deleon, Candy Fernandez, Gabriela Uribe, Angelina Perez, Maria Clark, Lourdes Gonzalez, Vilma Garcia, Dolores Olivas, Maria Osorio, Silvie Madrigal, Ana Gonzales, Maria Aguirre, Mariana Godina, Lidia Peraza, Chong Suk Kim, Claristine Hadley, Yong Hui Pak, Teresa Gomez, Noemi Maya, Teresa Wilson Sloan, Miyako Kanai, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNION OF NEEDLETRADES, INDUSTRIAL & TEXTILE EMPLOYEES, SOUTHWEST DISTRICT COUNCIL; Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees, AFL-CIO; Antonio Orea; Roxana Guevara, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 16, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda S. Klibanow, Pasadena, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Michael Rubin, Daniel T. Purtell, Victor M. Ortiz-de Montellano, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, San Francisco, California; Della Bahan, Bahan & Herold, Pasadena, California, for defendant-appellee UNITE.

Laurence S. Zakson, Carlos R. Perez, Reich, Adell, Crost & Cvitan, Los Angeles, California, for defendant-appellees UNITE-SW, Antonio Orea, and Roxana Guevara.

Before D.W. NELSON and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges, and SCHWARZER, Senior District Judge.

D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge.

This suit arises out of a contentious labor struggle at a garment factory in San Bernardino, California. Twenty-five garment workers ("the workers") brought suit against their union and its officials after the union engaged in secondary pressure to remove work from their factory. The workers alleged that their own union retaliated against them because they sought to have it decertified, in breach of the duty of fair representation...

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