OLSEN v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (CWA)

Civ. A. No. 82-3443.

559 F.Supp. 754 (1983)

Allen OLSEN, et al., Plaintiffs, v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (CWA), et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

March 16, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry A. Stein, Jeffry A. Mintz, Stein & Shapiro, Medford, N.J., and Nelson Kieff, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., Springfield, Va., for plaintiffs.

Irwin I. Kimmelman, Atty. Gen. of N.J. by Alfred E. Ramey, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J., for defendant, Thomas H. Kean, Governor, State of N.J.

Steven P. Weissman, CWA District 1, Trenton, N.J., James B. Coppess, Adair & Goldthwaite, P.C., Michael T. Leibig, Zwerdling, Schlossberg, Leibig & Kahn, Washington, D.C., Sidney Reitman, Reitman, Parsonnet, Maisel & Duggan, Newark, N.J., for Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, CWA District 1, and Locals 1031, 1032, 1033, 1034, 1037, 1038, 1039, and 1040; Laurence Gold, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., of counsel.


OPINION

DEBEVOISE, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, employees of the State of New Jersey who are not members of the union which is the majority representative of their employment unit, instituted this action attacking the validity of N.J.S.A. 34:13A-5.5 and 5.6. These statutory provisions permit a public employer and a majority representative to include in a collective bargaining agreement provisions requiring non...

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