Court Opinion

ID: 9480440
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:48:10.713585+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:41.639525
License: Public Domain

*918KENNEDY, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the panel’s opinion but write separately because I do not believe the opinion makes clear that all members of the merged locals were obligated to pay the same dues after the merger even though some members may be paying more in dues than they paid their former local. Because we do not know the number of members in each of the former locals, we are unable to determine the dues rate of a majority of those members. Thus we are unable to determine whether the rate set by Car-lough exceeded that paid by a majority to their former locals. Carlough set the dues rate at $30.00 plus 2% of all hours worked. There was some estimate that this would amount to $70.00 a month. The former locals had rates of $47.25, $50.00, $55.75, $60.00 and $30.00 plus $.15 per hour worked.