AIR LINE PILOTS v. MILLER

No. 97-428.

523 U.S. 866 (1998)

AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION v. MILLER et al.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided May 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry D. Anker argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.

Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr., argued the cause for respondents. With him on the brief was Philip F. Hudock.*

Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, and Thomas, JJ., joined. Breyer, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Stevens, J., joined, p. 880.


Justice Ginsburg, delivered the opinion of the Court.

An "agency-shop" arrangement permits a union, obliged to act on behalf of all employees in the bargaining unit, to charge nonunion workers their fair share of the costs of the representation. The purposes for which a union may spend the "agency fee" paid by nonmembers, however, are circumscribed by the First Amendment (when public employers are involved) and the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or Railway Labor...

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