United States Seventh Circuit

Because collective bargaining agreement between defendant employer and union appoints the latter as plaintiffs' exclusive representative in grievance proceedings, suit wherein plaintiffs sought representation by their own union should have been dismissed on merits rather than on jurisdictional grounds.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/25/2002
• Decided 04/11/2002
• Published 04/11/2002

Judges

• POSNER, Circuit Judge., Before POSNER, EASTERBROOK, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Haroild A. Ross (argued), Ross & Kraushaar, Cleveland, OH, Stephen J. Feinberg, Asher, Gittler, Greenfield, & D'Alba, Chicago, IL, for plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Brenda J. Council, Kutak, Rock & Campbell, Omaha, NE, Thomas W. Cushing, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Chicago, IL, Clinton J. Miller, III, Daniel R. Elliott, III (argued), United Transportation Union, Cleveland, OH, for defendant-appellee.