A flight attendant told the Supreme Court in a new filing that a federal appeals court ruling jeopardizes airline employees’ legal rights.
The Supreme Court docketed the flight attendant’s petition on April 23.
Petitioner Ali Bahreman, represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, is suing the respondents, Allegiant Air and the Transport Workers Union of America Local 577.
In 2017, Allegiant and the union added a so-called union security provision—in this case, an agency fee requirement—to their collective bargaining agreement, according to the petition.
The Railway Labor Act, which covers labor-management relations in the railroad and airline sectors, permits union security provisions, which force workers in unionized workplaces to hand over union fees to keep their jobs….