Local 827, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Trad

The opinion of the court was delivered by

STERN, J.A.D.

Plaintiff Local 827 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (the Union) filed complaints against defendants Edna S. Trad, John T. Dixon, and Marjorie E. Simms, employees of New Jersey Bell Telephone Company (Bell), seeking to enforce disciplinary fines it imposed on them for strike breaking. In their joint answer, filed after consolidation of the cases, defendants challenged the authority of the union to fine them. They asserted that the Union “failed to advise [them] of their right to resign from Union membership,” and in…