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BECK v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (C.W.A.)

Nos. 83-1955, 83-1956.

776 F.2d 1187 (1985)

Harry E. BECK, Jr.; Doris R. Ambrose; Jacqueline S. Brandon; Mary Anna Cox; Sally B. DiMauro; Rue T.F. Downey; Kathleen A. Heil; John J. Hurley; Harriett Lipschultz; Clay B. Lutz; Barbara McGaughey; Roland R. Merkle; Ethel T. Merryman; Doris J. Morrow; Marion F. Northrop; Frances M. Philips; Vivian Reedy; Barbara A. Russell; Lois A. Stallings; Harry B. Swartz, Sr., Appellees, v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (C.W.A.), an unincorporated Labor Organization; C.W.A. Committee on Political Education (C.W.A. COPE); C.W.A. District II; Local 2100 of C.W.A.; Local 2101 of C.W.A.; Local 2108 of C.W.A.; Local 2110 of C.W.A., Appellants, and Local 2350 of C.W.A.; American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a Federation of National and International Labor Organizations; AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education; Maryland State AFL-CIO; American Telephone & Telegraph, a Corporation; C & P Telephone Company of Maryland, a Corporation, Defendants. Harry E. BECK, Jr.; Doris R. Ambrose; Jacqueline S. Brandon; Mary Anna Cox; Sally B. DiMauro; Rue T.F. Downey; Kathleen A. Heil; John J. Hurley; Harriett Lipschultz; Clay B. Lutz; Barbara McGaughey; Roland R. Merkle; Ethel T. Merryman; Doris J. Morrow; Marion F. Northrop; Frances M. Philips; Vivian Reedy; Barbara A. Russell; Lois A. Stallings; Harry B. Swartz, Sr., Appellants, v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA (C.W.A.), an unincorporated Labor Organization; C.W.A. Committee on Political Education (C.W.A. COPE); C.W.A. District II; Local 2100 of C.W.A.; Local 2110 of C.W.A.; Local 2108 of C.W.A.; Local 2110 of C.W.A., Appellees, and Local 2350 of C.W.A.; American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a Federation of National and International Labor Organizations; AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education; Maryland State AFL-CIO; American Telephone & Telegraph, a Corporation; C & P Telephone Company of Maryland, a Corporation, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 24, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence Gold, Washington, D.C. (James Coppess; George Kaufmann, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellants/cross-appellees.

Edwin Vieira, Jr., Manassas, Va. (Joseph J. Hahn, Chicago, Ill., on brief), for appellees/cross-appellants.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and RUSSELL and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

DONALD RUSSELL, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs in this suit are twenty non-union employees1 of either the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT & T) or its subsidiary Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company (C & P) and, as such, are subject to an "agency shop" agreement2 negotiated between the employers and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and its locals as the exclusive bargaining agents...

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