WONDZELL v. ALASKA WOOD PRODUCTS, INC.

Nos. 2792, 2804.

601 P.2d 584 (1979)

Robert A. WONDZELL, Appellant, v. ALASKA WOOD PRODUCTS, INC., and Lumber Production and Industrial Workers Local 2362, Appellees. ALASKA WOOD PRODUCTS, INC., and Lumber Production and Industrial Workers Local 2362, Cross-Appellants, v. Robert A. WONDZELL and the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, Cross-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

Dissenting Opinion October 15, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Wagstaff and R. Collin Middleton, Wagstaff & Middleton, Anchorage, for appellant/cross-appellee Wondzell.

Carolyn Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for cross-appellees The Alaska State Commission for Human Rights.

M.T. Thomas, Robertson, Monagle, Eastaugh & Bradley, Juneau, for appellee/cross-appellant Alaska Wood Products.

Bernard Jolles, Portland, Or., and Stephen J. Pearson, Ely, Guess & Rudd, Juneau, for appellee/cross-appellant Lumber Production and Industrial Workers Local 2362.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR, BURKE and MATTHEWS, JJ.


OPINION ON REHEARING

MATTHEWS, Justice.

In our prior opinion in this case, 583 P.2d 860 (1978), we concluded that the reasonable accommodation of a worker's religious beliefs implicitly required by AS 18.80.220(a),1 does not require a union to allow a worker to pay an amount equivalent to union dues to a charity selected by the union. We relied on two cases in point, Yott v. North American...

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