Burlington Northern Railroad Company v. United Transportation Union, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Winona Bridge Railway Company

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “Burlington’s own conduct undermines its position” on the presence of a minor dispute after concluding dispute was major
• holding the wholesale deprivation of future work can manifest a major dispute
• “While the interpretation or application of the agreement may be questioned in a minor dispute, existence of a collective bargaining agreement is unquestioned.”
• a carrier cannot evade its duties under a collective bargaining agreement or the RLA by directing business to an entity within the same corporate family and not obligated by the existing collective bargaining agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).