A federal court is allowing some United Transportation Union officials to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to stop its merger with the Sheet Metal Workers.
Six United Transportation Union
vice presidents and the group’s national legislative director may intervene as
defendants in the lawsuit seeking to stop a merger with the Sheet Metal Workers
union.
That was the June 18 ruling of
Akron, Ohio, federal district court Judge John R. Adams.
The union officials support the
merger, which was to have taken effect Jan.1 and would have created the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail
and Transportation Workers.
A
group of UTU members filed suit, claiming they did not have time to adequately
review the new union’s constitution, adding that there are potential problems
with it.
The judge still must decide whether to issue a
preliminary injunction against the merger, which would put it on hold
indefinitely.;
