IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS v. AMALGAMATED

Nos. 78-1248, 78-1268.

597 F.2d 1138 (1979)

IOWA BEEF PROCESSORS, INC., (formerly known as Iowa Beef Packers, Inc., a corporation), Appellee and Cross-Appellant, v. AMALGAMATED MEAT CUTTERS & BUTCHER WORKMEN OF NORTH AMERICA, AFL-CIO, Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO, Local Union No. 1135, Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO, Local Union No. 1196, and Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO, Local Union No. 1277, Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 1, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Bowlus of Cotton, Watt, Jones, King & Bowlus, Chicago, Ill. (argued), Russell Woody, Chicago, Ill., and Harry H. Smith, Sioux City, Iowa, on brief, for appellants Amalgamated Meat Cutters, etc., et al.

P. L. Nymann of Jacobs, Gaul, Nymann & Green, Sioux City, Iowa (argued), and Herschel G. Langdon of Herrick, Langdon, Belin, Harris, Langdon & Helmick, Des Moines, Iowa, on brief, for appellee Iowa Beef Processors, Inc.

Before LAY, BRIGHT, and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO (the International), and three of its local unions (the locals)1 appeal from a judgment of the district court,2 following a jury trial, awarding $1,756,592 to Iowa Beef Processors, Inc. (IBP or the Company) on IBP's claims that the Unions breached the no-strike provisions of the collective bargaining agreements at...

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