UNITED FEDERATION OF POSTAL CLERKS, AFL-CIO v. WATSON

No. 21685.

409 F.2d 462 (1969)

UNITED FEDERATION OF POSTAL CLERKS, AFL-CIO, et al., Appellants, v. W. Marvin WATSON, Postmaster General of the United States, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 27, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Herbert S. Thatcher, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Donald M. Murtha, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Ralph A. Fine, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom Asst. Atty. Gen. Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty. and Alan S. Rosenthal, Attorney, Department of Justice, were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT and LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judges.


BAZELON, Chief Judge:

In this action for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief, appellants challenge the Postmaster General's construction of Sections 3571 and 3573 of the Federal Employees Salary Comparability Act of 1965.1 These sections purportedly modernized the working conditions of postal employees by providing overtime pay for overtime work in place of the anachronistic system of compensatory...

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