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Subject: GROVES v. RING SCREW WORKS, FERNDALE DIV., Syllabus
NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as
is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is
issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but
has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the
reader. See United States v. Detroit Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321, 337.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Syllabus
GROVES et al. v. RING SCREW WORKS, FERNDALE FASTENER DIVISION
certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit
No. 89-1166. Argued October 10, 1990 -- Decided December 10, 1990
After petitioner employees were discharged from their jobs, they and
petitioner union invoked the grievance procedures in the
collective-bargaining agreements between the union and respondent company.
Those agreements provide for voluntary grievance procedures, including
arbitration, and reserve the parties' respective rights to resort to
economic weapons when the procedures fail to resolve a dispute, but are
silent as to judicial remedies. Upon failure of the grievance procedures,
petitioners filed an action under MDRV 301 of the Labor Management
Relations Act, 1947 (LMRA), which provides a judicial remedy for the breach
of a collective-bargaining agreement. The District Court granted the
company's motion for summary judgment, and the Court of Appeals affirmed,
holding that the agreements brought about an inference that a strike or
other job action was the perceived remedy for failure of successful
resolution of a grievance absent agreed arbitration, such that recourse to
the courts under MDRV 301 was barred.
Held: Petitioners may seek a judicial remedy under MDRV 301. While MDRV
301's strong presumption favoring judicial enforcement of
collective-bargaining agreements may be overcome whenever the parties
expressly agree to a different method for adjustment of their disputes,
Congress, in passing the LMRA, envisaged peaceful methods of dispute
resolution. Thus, the statute does not favor an agreement to resort to
economic warfare rather than to mediation, arbitration, or judicial review.
A contract provision reserving the union's right to resort to economic
weapons cannot be construed as an agreement to divest the courts of
jurisdiction to resolve disputes. Such an agreement would have to be
written much more clearly. Pp. 4-8.
882 F. 2d 1081, reversed and remanded.
Stevens, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court.
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