HAVAS v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA

No. 75-CV-268.

509 F.Supp. 144 (1981)

Stephen R. HAVAS, Sue Havas, George Albeck, Stanley Borek, Melvin J. Brink, William H. Cator, Kenneth L. Collins, Donald R. Drake, Elizabeth Emrich, William F. Foote, Edward S. Fulmer, Jr., David P. Gibson, Theodore F. Jamba, J. T. LaBalbo, Lorraine E. Mercier, Clayton E. Mitchell, Paul Muscarnera and Norma W. Paquin, Plaintiffs, v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (C.W.A.), an unincorporated labor organization; C.W.A. District I: C.W.A. Committee on Political Education: Local 1101 of C.W.A.; Local 1111 of C.W.A.; Local 1123 of C.W.A.; Local 1124 of C.W.A.; Local 1126 of C.W.A.; Local 1127 of C.W.A.; Local 1128 of C.W.A.; American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of national and international labor organizations; AFL-CIO New York State Central Body; AFL-CIO Committee on Political Educations; and New York Telephone Company, a corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. New York.

February 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundations, Inc., Springfield, Va., for plaintiffs; Hugh L. Reilly, Kensington, Md., John E. Shaffer, Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel.

Thomas P. McMahon, Buffalo, N. Y., for defendants AFL-CIO, AFL-CIO New York State Central Body and AFL-CIO COPE.

Lipsitz, Green, Fahringer, Roll, Schuller & James, Buffalo, N. Y., for defendants C.W.A., C.W.A. District I, C.W.A.-COPE and C.W.A. Locals 1101, 1111, 1123, 1124, 1126, 1127 and 1128; Richard Lipsitz, Buffalo, N. Y., Charles V. Koons, Kane & Koons, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Michael Hertzberg, New York City, for defendant New York Tel. Co.


MUNSON, Chief Judge.

MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ORDER

The plaintiffs in this labor action are eighteen nonunion employees of the defendant New York Telephone Company (Telco) who contest, inter alia, the allegedly improper use by the defendant Communications Workers of America (CWA) of the plaintiffs' agency fees. The gravamen of this particular challenge is that the CWA has wrongfully applied their fees to...

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