Equal membership terms without disqualifying employer knowledge
AND · 29usc158:lawful-union-security.equal-membership
For the union-security justification to apply, the employer must lack the stated reasonable grounds that equal membership terms were unavailable. This is a condition on the exception, not permission to demand full union membership.
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(A) if he has reasonable grounds for believing that such membership was not available to the employee on the same terms and conditions generally applicable to other members,
Source: docroot/ir/usc/title29.jsonl#title29_sec158; Unicode character offsets [1956:2129] (end exclusive); SHA-256 caadb20cedf4fd4e200812fc0ec46617cc7978ef7a6b0a30e355bccfeb7e0d06.
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