Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit August 17, 1992, 91-3492 (Harold G. Deibler v. United Food and Commercial Workers' Local Union 23)

OPINION OF THE COURT

STAPLETON, Circuit Judge:

I.

Plaintiff-appellee Harold Deibler was employed by the defendant-appellant local union for nineteen years. Some months before he was discharged in 1985, the union terminated its longstanding severance pay policy. Deibler was subsequently denied severance pay.