W. Eugene Bowman v. Tennessee Valley Authority Salary Policy Employee Panel and Office and Professional Employees International Union, Afl-Cio

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• holding that a federal corporation employees’ union has a federal common law duty of fair representation identical to that of a union whose members all work for a private employer
• holding that a federal corporation employees = union has a federal common law duty of fair representation identical to that of a union whose members all work for a private employer
• “[W]e follow the longstanding practice of the Supreme Court . . . [in declining] to decide questions of a constitutional nature unless absolutely necessary to a decision of the case.” (quotation marks and citation omitted)

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