Rafael Aguilar v. International Longshoremen's Union Local 10 International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union Pacific Maritime Association

ORDER

The memorandum disposition filed March 6, 1992, 956 F.2d 1166 , is redesignated as an authored opinion by Judge Robert Boochever.

OPINION

Fifty-eight part-time longshore workers at the Port of San Francisco appeal the entry of summary judgment against them in a suit against the union and the employers’ association, in which the workers sought an injunction to require that registration for full-time permanent longshore work be solely on the basis of prior long-shore experience. We affirm.

BACKGROUND

The appellants in this case are fifty-eight “casual” longshore workers (the casual workers), each with over 1,000 hours of longshore work at San Francisco ports. As casuals, they perform longshore work on an overload basis when there is a shortage of available registered longshoremen. The appellees are the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), a multi-employer association of vessel operators and stevedoring and marine terminal companies; the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), the union representing registered longshoremen employed by PMA members; and Local # 10 of the ILWU, which represents San Francisco Bay Area longshoremen. Because this lawsuit…