Janet K. Hodge v. Drivers, Salesmen, Warehousemen, Milk Processors, Cannery, Dairy Employees & Helpers' Local Union 695

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This appeal challenges the district court’s finding that plaintiff, a union secretary who had wide-ranging responsibility and access to confidential union information and who was fired for her perceived lack of loyalty to the newly elected union administration, is not a “nonconfidential employee” who may be entitled to recover under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, 29 U.S.C. §§ 411, 412, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Finnegan v. Leu, 456 U.S. 431, 102 S.Ct. 1867, 1873 n. 11, 72 L.Ed.2d 239 (1982). We affirm.

I

The relevant…