Alaska State Employees Ass'n v. Alaska Public Employees Ass'n

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Appellants, the Alaska State Employees Association (“ASEA”) and three individual members of the General Government Unit of State employees (“GGU”), sued the Alaska Public Employees Association (“APEA”) and the Alaska Public Employees Legal Trust Fund.1 The trial court granted summary judgment for APEA. ASEA appeals.

The suit involves three union funds, the Business Leave Bank, the Strike Fund, and the Legal Trust Fund. The GGU members contributed the majority of the assets deposited in these funds. APEA once represented the GGU members, but now ASEA…