Lydia Korzen and Marsha O'Brien v. Local Union 705, International Brotherhood of Teamsters

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• explaining that the basis for holding that international union constitutions are contracts under section 301 is absent regarding local union constitutions, which are merely contracts between unions and their members and, hence, not within the scope of section 301
• “A simple employment contract is not within the scope of section 301, even when the employer is a union . . . for it is neither a contract between an employer and a labor organization nor a contract between two labor organizations.”

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