Legal Opinion
Pilots Against Illegal Dues (Paid) v. Air Line Pilots Association (Alpa)
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 11, 1991No. 89-1053PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WESLEY E. BROWN, District Judge.
Plaintiff-appellants are twenty-one nonunion pilots employed by United Airlines. The defendant-appellee Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) is the exclusive bargaining representative of all United pilots. In 1983, United Airlines and ALPA entered into an “agency shop” arrangement, under which United pilots were required either to become ALPA members or to pay ALPA an agency fee for expenses incurred in representing the pilots. Such arrangements are authorized by Section 2, Eleventh of the Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. § 152.
The plaintiffs brought this…
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