Forrest Industries, Inc. v. Local Union No. 3-436
Opinion
Opinion
381 F.2d 144 FORREST INDUSTRIES, INC., a corporation, Appellant, v. LOCAL UNION NO. 3-436, INTERNATIONAL WOODWORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, a Labor Organization, and Western States Regional Council No. 111, International Woodworkers of America, AFL-CIO, a Labor Organization, Appellees. No. 21422. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. July 14, 1967. King, Miller, Anderson, Nash & Yerke, Norman Wiener, Portland, Or., Geddes, Felker, Walton & Richmond, Roseburg, Or., for appellant. William Dale, Hicks, Tongue, Dale & Strader, Portland, Or., A. C. Roll, Roseburg, Or., for appellees. Before BARNES and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges, and HILL, District Judge. IRVING HILL, District Judge: This action arises out of a labor dispute in the plant of a plywood manufacturing concern. The employer (appellant here) seeks damages from a local labor union and a regional council of unions (appellees here) for strike which the employer alleges was conducted in breach of the collective bargaining agreement then in effect between it and the local union. The dispute arose when the employer, as part of an economy drive, on two it its three shifts, combined three existing positions into two.…