Housing Authority of Louisville v. Service Employees International Union, Local 557

WINTERSHEIMER, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the Court of Appeals which affirmed a summary judgment of the circuit court upholding an award by an arbitrator of a union contract which found that the contract properly provided that funds were to be withheld by the employer from the paychecks of all employees eligible for union representation regardless of whether they were actually union members.

The issues presented by the Housing Authority of Louisville are as follows: that the Union failed to establish constitutionally mandated procedural safeguards for the use of fair share fees;…