It is often recognized that an employee opposing summary judgment must do more than say “not so” and that successfully opposing such a motion requires more than just peripheral disputes as to the core decision. These tenets were recently applied by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Coe v. U.S. Steel, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 166230 (E.D. Pa. Nov. 21, 2012).
Newly Elected Union President
William Coe, an African-American, is a long-term employee at U.S. Steel’s Fairless Hills, Pa., plant. He was elected president of the local steelworkers’ union in mid-2009. At the time, the relationship between the employees and the company was governed by a collective bargaining agreement that went into effect September 1, 2008. A different agreement preceded the 2008 contract.
