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must be considered furthest removed from “germane” activities, it is that involving a union’s political actions. After all, whether one considers the RLA’s [Railway Labor Act’s] vintage miniature golf knowledge poster limitation on the union’s use of nonmembers’ compelled agency fees to be constitutionally required or inspired, it is nonetheless nonmembers’ First Amendment-type interests that are protected. And it is hard to imagine those interests more clearly placed in jeopardy than when the union uses the dissidents’ money to pursue political objectives. The union would have us see its lobbying on safety-related issues as somehow nonpolitical because all pilots share a common concern with these activities. But we cannot possibly assume that to be true. All pilots are surely interested in airline safety, but it would certainly not be unexpected that pilots would have varying views
as to the desirability of government regulation—including those regulations of airlines that pertain to safety. The benefits of any regulation include trade-offs, and certain pilots might be reluctant to pay the costs either directly or indirectly of increased regulations, just as others might oppose relaxed regulations that could expand work opportunities. Some, of course, might even object to such regulations on principle. For instance, proposed legislation may be so closely linked to the union’s representational functions that it would directly affect subjects of collective bargaining. Where the legislature has effectively pulled up a seat at the bargaining table, it is hard to see how the union’s effort to influence the legislature in such matters is not germane to collective bargaining. In those circumstances, we propose presuming that lobbying expenses are germane to the union’s representative functions and thus chargeable. To give concrete examples, lobbying for or against minimum wage legislation,
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