No. 21-278

John Krakowski, et al. v. Allied Pilots Association, et al.

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2021-08-25
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: 11-usc-1113 bankruptcy-court collective-bargaining discrimination duty-of-fair-representation labor-union railway-labor-act seniority-system
Latest Conference: 2021-10-08
Question Presented (from Petition)

Where a labor union imposed as part of its collective bargaining agreement a seniority system that admittedly discriminated in bad faith against a disfavored employee group at a time when the union owed the disfavored employees no duty of fair representation because it did not yet represent them, may the union subsequently, after the duty of fair representation to those employees has attached, agree to re-implement the same discriminatory seniority system following elimination of the contractual status quo by a bankruptcy court order under 11 U.S.C. § 1113 approving the employer's abrogation of the collective bargaining agreement and its seniority system?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Where a labor union imposed as part of its collective bargaining agreement a seniority system that admittedly discriminated in bad faith against a disfavored employee group at a time when the union owed the disfavored employees no duty of fair representation because it did not yet represent them, may the union subsequently, after the duty of fair representation to those employees has attached, agree to re-implement the same discriminatory seniority system following elimination of the contractual status quo by a bankruptcy court order under 11 U.S.C. § 1113 approving the employer's abrogation of the collective bargaining agreement and its seniority system?

Docket Entries

2021-10-12
Petition DENIED.
2021-09-15
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/8/2021.
2021-09-10
Waiver of right of respondent Allied Pilots Association to respond filed.
2021-08-26
Waiver of right of respondent American Airlines, Inc. to respond filed.
2021-08-23
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 24, 2021)

Attorneys

Allied Pilots Association
Daniel Morris RosenthalJames & Hoffman, P.C., Respondent
American Airlines, Inc.
Mark W. RobertsonO'Melveny & Myers, LLP, Respondent
John Krakowski, et al.
Joe David JacobsonJacobson Press, P.C., Petitioner