Caterpillar Inc. v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (523 U.S. 1015)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided March 23, 1998 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 523 U.S. 1015 · 118 S. Ct. 1350
- Decided
- March 23, 1998
- Term
- October Term 1997
- Vote
- 9–0
- Disposition
- Petition denied or appeal dismissed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
Opinion excerpt
Justice Scalia delivered the opinion of the Court. The sole question presented for review is whether federal courts have subject-matter jurisdiction of this case under § 301(a) of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, 61 Stat. 156, 29 U. S. C. § 185(a). I Petitioner, Textron Lycoming Reciprocating Engine Division (Textron), employs at its Williamsport, Pennsylvania, plant approximately 500 members of respondents, the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America and its Local 187 (hereinafter UAW or Union). From April 1, 1994, to April 1,1997, Textron and the Union were parties to a collective-bargaining agreement that prohibited the Union from striking against Textron for any reason and, through the adoption of a separate memorandum agreement, required Textron to give the Union seven days’ notice before entering into any agreement to "subcontract out” work that would otherwise be performed by Union members. In June 1994, Textron announced that it planned to subcontract out a volume of work that would cause roughly one-half of the Union members to lose their jobs. Thereafter, in November 1995, the Union filed the present complaint in Federal District Court, alleging that Tex-tron fraudulently induced the Union to sign the collective-bargaining agreement. Specifically, the Union claims that both before and during negotiations it repeatedly…
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