CRAWFORD v. AIR LINE PILOTS ASS'N INTERN.

No. 88-2083.

992 F.2d 1295 (1993)

Peter CRAWFORD; Frederick J. Adam; Robert F. Brauman; Richard L. Brown; William A. Burbage; Robert Erchak; Ron E. Merzlak; Leroy Rogers; Roger F. Seely; Warren Wells; Dale Cross; Richard Pederson; Clyde B. Smith; Ernest Mueller; Ruel Neeley; Robert Buley; Thomas Giefer; Klemens Thomas; Howard L. Jones; Herbert A. Light; Joseph R. Mackensie; Michael T. McQuillen; John R. Yotz; Harold Bagnall; Richard P. Barthelemy; Clinton Davis; Edison L. Denney; George Gawrilow; John J. Lumley; Albert Newton; Eugene Palsson; Dale B. Petty; Deryl Roark; Donald D. Ecker; Karl A. Jadrnicek; Howard S. Morton; Richard W. Rew; Donovan Wholers; Donald K. Brewster; Peter Hayes; Laurence J. Stuppy, III; Roger Veon, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL, Defendant-Appellee. Transportation Communications International Union, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 28, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Fisher Gore, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc., Springfield, VA, argued (Rossie D. Alston, Jr., on brief), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jerry David Anker, Air Line Pilots Ass'n, Washington, DC, argued (Gary Green, on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Mitchell Kraus, Transportation Communications Intern. Union, Rockville, MD, Marsha S. Berzon, Altshuler & Berzon, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae.

Before ERVIN, Chief Judge, RUSSELL, WIDENER, HALL, PHILLIPS, MURNAGHAN, WILKINSON, WILKINS, NIEMEYER, HAMILTON, and LUTTIG, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.


OPINION

BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellants are forty-two nonunion airline pilots employed by one of eight airline companies — Eastern, Braniff, Midway, Northwest, Pan American, United, Western, or USAir — operating under the labor scheme of the federal Railway Labor Act (RLA), 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. See 45 U.S.C. § 181 (air carriers regulated under the Act). Each of the airlines had an agreement with the Air Line Pilots...

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