Sargent v. United Transportation Union

CURTIN, District Judge.

This is a class action under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (29 U.S.C. § 401 et seq.). The named plaintiff is a member of Lodge 1566, one of twenty-three locals of the defendant labor organization. While plaintiff’s local has 216 members, one lodge has as few as nine and another as many as 354. Notwithstanding these differences, the defendant’s constitution, adopted in 1969, provides that in elections for officers of the General Committee of Adjustment, each local may cast, through the local’s chairman, only one vote. Claiming that this system…