American Postal Workers Union, Headquarters Local 6885 v. American Postal Workers Union
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
665 F.2d 1096 (1981)
- Written by Tammy Boggs, JD
Facts
The American Postal Workers Union (the national union) (defendant) represented mail-processing employees and negotiated a collective-bargaining agreement (the national agreement) with the United States Postal Service. As of 1972, the national union’s constitution entitled employees to ratify the national agreement by a majority vote. Thereafter, the national union became the bargaining representative for some smaller non-mail-processing-employee bargaining units. The national union negotiated a tentative collective-bargaining agreement with the United States Postal Service to cover the non-mail-processing employees. The national union took the position that non-mail-processing employees did not have the right to ratify their collective-bargaining agreement. Local 6885 (the local union) (plaintiff) sued the national union in district court, alleging that the national union’s failure to allow for ratification of the proposed agreement violated the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). The district court ruled against the local union. An appeal followed.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Mikva, J.)
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