Legal Opinion
Lutz v. International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Worker's
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided October 12, 2000No. C.A. 00-148-APublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ELLIS, District Judge.
Six nonunion employees of United Airlines bring this action against the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (“IAM”), claiming that IAM’s policy requiring nonmembers of the union to file their objections annually to the payment of union fees unrelated to the costs of collective bargaining (“agency fees”) violates the nonmembers’ rights under the First Amendment and the Railway Labor Act (“RLA”), 45 U.S.C. § 151 (1994). At issue here is plaintiffs’ motion to have a class certified comprised of “all nonmembers of Defendant IAM,…
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