Legal Opinion
Kidwell v. Transportation Communications International Union
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided February 27, 1990No. Civ. PN-85-3804PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NIEMEYER, District Judge.
The four plaintiffs, who are or have been railroad employees and who purport to represent others similarly situated, have sued the Transportation Communications International Union and two of its locals (collectively “the TCU” or “the Union”), complaining about the Union’s expenditure of dues for purposes unrelated to collective bargaining and its method of reducing dues to nonunion employees. The TCU is the collective bargaining representative under an agency shop relationship authorized by the Railway Labor Act, which permits railroad employees to be union…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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