Legal Opinion
Beatrice Linscott v. Millers Falls Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 29, 1971No. 7723_1PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, Chief Judge.
Plaintiff, Linscott, a Seventh-day Adventist, was employed by defendant Millers Falls Company, hereinafter company, from 1950 until October 1968. In 1968 defendant United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), and its Local 274, hereinafter union, having been certified two years previously by the NLRB, entered into a collective bargaining agreement with the company which contained a provision requiring a union shop. Plaintiff refused to pay initiation fees or dues because her religion *16forbad contributing financial or other support to a union. There is no…
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