Court Opinion

ID: 9490388
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Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:42:09.589231+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:54:04.287813
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*499SILBERMAN, Circuit Judge,
with whom
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge,
joins,

concurring in the denial of rehearing:

Air Line Pilots Association argues in its petition for rehearing that our opinion is inconsistent with the rationale of Cole v. Burns Int'l Security Services, 105 F.3d 1465 (D.C.Cir.1997). In Cole we held that an employer can enforce an agreement to arbitrate federal statutory discrimination claims which an employee signs as a condition of employment. Id. at 1482, 1484-85, 1487. ALPA concedes that the non-union pilots did not sign a written arbitration agreement, as did Cole, but argues that arbitration is nonetheless a condition of employment because it arises from the agency shop agreement between ALPA and the airline. But, as appellant correctly notes, under the agency shop agreement, ALPA is the agent for the nonmembers only vis-a-vis the employer, it is not an agent for the nonmembers vis-a-vis itself. So Cole is irrelevant to this case.
Before: EDWARDS, Chief Judge; WALD, SILBERMAN, WILLIAMS, GINSBURG, SENTELLE,. HENDERSON, RANDOLPH, ROGERS, TATEL and GARLAND, Circuit Judges.

ORDER

Upon consideration of appellee’s Suggestion for Rehearing In Banc, the response thereto, and the absence of a request by any member of the court for a vote, it is
ORDERED that the suggestion be denied.
Circuit Judge GARLAND did not participate in this matter.