Brotherhood Of Railway Carmen Of The United States And Canada, Afl-Cio, Clc v. Pacific Fruit Express Company

651 F.2d 651 107 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 3239 , 91 Lab.Cas. P 12,903 BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY CARMEN OF the UNITED STATES AND CANADA, AFL-CIO, CLC; Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of the United States and Canada, Pacific Fruit Express and Union Pacific Fruit Express Joint Protective Board; Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of the United States and Canada, Local Lodge No. 231, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. PACIFIC FRUIT EXPRESS COMPANY and Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Defendants-Appellees. No. 80-4002. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted June 10, 1981. Decided July 20, 1981. Friedman Weitzman & Friedman, P.C., C. Marshall Friedman, Newton G. McCoy, St. Louis, Mo., for plaintiffs-appellants. Robert Bogason, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. Before MERRILL, HUG and SKOPIL, Circuit Judges. MERRILL, Circuit Judge: 1 The Brotherhoods contend that the collective bargaining agreement between the parties of September 25, 1964, was violated by Pacific Fruit Express (PFE), when, in October, 1979, it announced that it was abandoning its heavy repair facilities in…