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Federal Judge Dismisses Just Born Lawsuit Against BCTGM Local 6
… strike in 2016 . … In a 15-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl ruled on Dec. 29 that the company failed to prove that Local 6 members violated a no-strike clause in the collective bargaining agreement. Some 400 Local 6 members went on strike Sept. 7, 2016. Members returned to work in late October 2016, although a new contract has still not been reached and negotiations have yet to be scheduled. … which had expired the previous June, Schmehl wrote that there was no evidence to conclude that the members gave up their right to strike . Despite the ruling, Just Born has filed an appeal to the decision. "It was a frivolous lawsuit from the …