COMMUNICATIONS WKRS. OF AM. v. WESTERN ELEC. CO., INC.

Nos. 26651, 26797.

551 P.2d 1065 (1976)

COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA, an Unincorporated Labor Association, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INCORPORATED, a New York Corporation, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing July 6, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. McKendree, Clay Smith, Denver, Charles V. Koons, Washington, D.C., of counsel, for plaintiff-appellant.

Rovira, DeMuth & Eiberger, Carl F. Eiberger, Russell P. Rowe, Jeffrey G. Pearson, Denver, for defendant-appellee Western Electric Co., Inc.

David R. Hansen, Denver, Robert Levitt, New York City, for defendant-appellees, The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Jean E. Dubofsky, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Peter L. Dye, Asst. Atty. Gen., Gorsuch, Kirgis, Campbell, Walker & Grover, David R. Gorsuch, Denver, Rex H. Reed, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.

Criswell & Patterson, John A. Criswell, Englewood, for amicus curiae, Colorado-Wyoming Joint Council of Teamsters No. 54.

Walter C. Brauer, III, Mark N. Simons, Denver, for amicus curiae, Colorado Labor Council.


ERICKSON, Justice.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Communications Workers of America (an unincorporated labor association, hereinafter referred to as C.W.A.) from an adverse decision of the District Court for the City and County of Denver. The defendants are the Western Electric Company, Inc., a New York corporation; the State of Colorado, Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Labor; James M. Shaffer, Executive Director of the Division of Labor; the...

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