Court Opinion

ID: 9466806
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 01:28:24.475266+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:58.308487
License: Public Domain

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
This circuit does appear to have endorsed, although not as a result of detailed analysis, the rule that “(f)ailure to exhaust internal union remedies (cannot) be urged by the employer as a defense in a suit by the employee for wrongful discharge,” Retana v. Apartment Elevator Operators Union, 453 F.2d 1018, 1027 n. 16 (9th Cir. 1972); Keppard v. International Harvester Co., 581 F.2d 764 (9th Cir. 1978). I have some reservations as to the wisdom of this rule, but I agree the court’s disposition in this ease accords with the prior case law, and I therefore concur.