VOILAS v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 98-5057.

170 F.3d 367 (1999)

George H. VOILAS; John Trippa; Walt Wenski; Marietta Berenato; Johnny M. Dollson; Augusta Budd, Individually and on Behalf of All Other Persons Similarly Situated; Lottie Ferguson; John Mellodge; Silvia Albarran; Robert L. Aldridge; Carmen C. Alicea; Beatrice P. Amison; Gerald P. Amison; Shirley Anderson; Joseph R. Andrews, Jr.; Mary Lou Arcamone; Mary B. Austin; Samuel A. Badessa; James Bailey; Raymond Bayzath; Jose Beauchamps; Mary L. Benjamin; George R. Beres; Jozefa Bielski; Leon R. Boyer; Richard M. Bracy; William F. Brady, Jr.; Richard Briggs; Freddie L. Brimley; Herbert Brooker; James Brophy; James Browne; Victoria Brown; Hector G. Burgos; John E. Burres; Adelyn Burroughs; Robert C. Case; Margaret Chambuc; Patricia F. Charyak; Elmont Cheesman; Vincent J. Chesney; Matteo Cipriano; Benjamin Cole; Thomas J. Coleman; Gloria M. Collazo; Fred M. Como; David M. Cope, Sr.; Maria T. Cowell; William R. Craft; Patricia Crammer; Joann Crea; Luz M. Cruz; Edward R. Culver; Mary L. Czap; Sophie Dardzinski; Dolores M. DeGennaro; Myrtle Delbaugh; Barbara Derry; Margaree Dillard; Edward Doroba; Anthony Doto; Anatol Dowbnia; Thomas Dow; David Downing, Jr.; Charles P. Dragos; Mary F. Ealy; Kurt Eder; Betty Eddy; Custodia Feijo; Sylvia Ferguson; Helen Figg; Ethel M. Finrock; Juan Flores; Rafael Garcia; Majorie O. Garvin; George E. Gindhart; Delores R. Glazewski; Lester Glascoe; Larry G. Goodman; Richard P. Grimes; Elfrieda Halko; Murray Halpern; Geraldine B. Hambley; Katherine Hamilton; Barbara A. Harden; Charlotte Hayden; William S. Hill; Thomas J. Horan; Richard M. Hutchinson, Jr.; Sarah C. Innis; Joseph J. Janeczek; William Jefferson; Andrena Johnson; John D. Jolly; Kathleen E. Jones; Dorothea E. Kato; Dolores J. Kelley; Dorothy M. Kelly; Margaret M. Kennedy; Bela H. Kiss; Carl H. Kuhfeldt; Sam M. Lagares; Ronald Lawrence; Chong Sue Lee; Armand Loretucci, Jr.; Jacqueline Marinello; Dolores L. Beers (nee Marlin); Margaret Mason; Thomas Mattei; Juan Medina; Mary R. Merovich; Fillippi P. Micocci; Eugene Minich; Hector M. Morales; Minerva Morales; Cornelius Morrow; Mary A. Murphy; Edward J. Nemeth; Carmela C. Nickels; Stanley J. Olschewski; Ronald J. Palmieri; Geraldine Parrish; James Petrucelli; Nicholas Pfann; Gertrude Pinkney; Freya E. Poliziana; Alfreda Prasak; Rochelle Pritchard; Carmen Quiles; Frederick Rainer; Evelyn Ramsey; Raymond R. Rawa; Stanislaw Rembowski; Aston Richardson; Robert Robinson; Richard J. Rogalinski; Saturnino Roman; Olga Ruth; Andrew J. Samu; Minnie Sanders; Anthony Scott; Ernest Scott; Jasper T. Scott; Josephine Seckinger; Joseph B. Serock; Margaret Shelton; Thomas Sehunuk; Frederick O. Shipp, Sr.; Janet A. Simpson; Gladys A. Smalley; Elizabeth J. Smith; Frank Smith; Frank E. Smith; Dolores Stewart; Robert A. Stocker; Barbara A. Sykes; Ida Taylor; Anthony Testa; Gilbert J. Tilton; Isaac Toney; Emanuel J. Tramontana; Evelyn Treibly; Emma M. Twyman; Katherine Vanderbilt; Elizabeth O. Vandewater; James L. Vandewater; Patricia A. Velez; Robert F. Walker; Marie A. Walsh; John Walter; Loretta Washington; John Wells; James B. Wheeler; Gladys Williams; Margaret M. Williams; Rose Marie Winrow; George M. Woodward, Jr.; Bonnie L. Wright; Frank Prasak; Benjamin Isom; Michael Sebasto; Walter Lomax; John Black; Hugh Daniels; Karl Deibler; James Duncan; Minerva Montero; Alicea Quinones; Frank Tuccillo; Roscoe Wright; and Hank Weinman v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION; Inland Fisher Guide Plant, a Division of General Motors Corporation; Local # 731 International Union, United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (D.C. Civil No. 95-487). George Voilas; John Trippa; Walter Wenski; Marietta Berenato; Johnny M. Dollson; Augusta Budd, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated v. Local # 731 International Union, United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, United Automobile Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, a labor organization (D.C. Civil No. 95-2960). General Motors Corporation, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Crowley, Jr. (Argued), Linda B. Celauro, Kathryn A. Korger, Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey, Newark, NJ, for Appellant.

H. Thomas Hunt, III (Argued), Anthony L. Marchetti, Jr., Hunt & Scaramella, P.C., Cherry Hill, NJ, Jerald R. Cureton, Michael J. Wietrzychowski, Cureton, Caplan & Clark, P.C., Mt. Laurel, NJ, for Appellees.

Before: SLOVITER, GARTH and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Circuit Judge.

INTRODUCTION

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