Minnesota Lawyer
Where an airline challenged as violating a public policy against large loans to union officials a judgment enforcing an arbitrator’s award of back pay to a pilot fired by the airline, the airline had standing to bring the appeal, and an arbitrator’s unreviewed decision in a similar case did not preclude the airline’s public policy challenge to the arbitration award, but the court finds that the airline did not present evidence establish that the union and pilot intended Section 60 payments to be a loan, so the union’s financial arrangement with the pilot was not an illegal loan and enforcement of the award does not violate the public policy of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. Judgment is affirmed.
10-1700 Air Line Pilots Association International v. Trans States Airlines, LLC, appealed from the Eastern District of Missouri, Riley, J.
