Mississippi Valley Electric Co. v. Local 130 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Mississippi Valley Electric Co. v. Local 130 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Dissenting Opinion
(dissenting).
I respectfully dissent from the per curiam opinion granting the petition of the appellee for a rehearing and affirming the judgment of the district court. I think the majority opinion rendered by this Court
I do not think the cases now cited by the majority overrule or modify Association of Westinghouse Salaried Employees v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation, 1955, 348 U.S. 437, 75 S.Ct. 489, 99 L.Ed. 510, and I do think this case is governed by that decision.
The case before us is not, in my opinion, a union controversy rather than uniquely personal rights of employees sought to be enforced by a union. The relief sought is, in my judgment, nothing but a money judgment due, not to the union, but to certain individuals.
There is no prayer for specific performance, and nothing is asked but a money judgment. The appellants did not owe the union any money. As we set out in the majority opinion when the ease was originally before us, the union was attempting to enforce a demand belonging, not to the union, but to the individuals with whom the appellants had separate contracts to pay the money.
“The District Court had jurisdiction over the action since it involved an obligation running to a union — a union controversy — and not uniquely personal rights of employees sought to be enforced by a union. Cf. Association of Westinghouse Salaried Employees v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp., 348 U.S. 437, 75 S.Ct. 489, 99 L.Ed. 510.”
The dissent from our original opinion,
Rehearing denied: CAMERON, C. J., dissented.
. The concluding paragraphs of the complaint read thus:
“12. A part of the award of the Joint Labor Management Committee was that defendant should pay certain of defendant’s employees $350.00 because defendant had failed to pay the scale of wages to those employees as provided for in the agreement.
“13. Despite repeated demands made on the defendant by plaintiff, defendant refused and does still refuse to abide by the award of the Joint Labor Management Committee.
“Wherefore, plaintiff demands judgment against defendant in the sum of Three Hundred Fifty ($350.00) Dollars, interest and costs.” [Emphasis supplied.]
. 5 Cir., 278 F.2d at page 770.
. Words used by Chief Justice Warren as reported in 348 U.S. at page vii, 75 S.Ct. at page 11.
Opinion of the Court
Since our opinion
The petition of the appellee for rehearing is granted, and on rehearing the judgment of the district court is
Affirmed.
. 5 Cir., 278 F.2d 764.
Reference
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- MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ELECTRIC COMPANY, a partnership, and Frank L. Pendergrass, James L. Pendergrass and Katie T. Pendergrass individually v. LOCAL 130 OF the INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS, AFL-CIO
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