487 U.S. 735 (1988) Cited 278 times 45 Legal Analyses
Holding that non-members could not be charged "to support union activities beyond those germane to collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment"
367 U.S. 740 (1961) Cited 470 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that because the individual Street plaintiffs "have in the course of [this action] made known to their respective unions their objection to the use of their money for the support of political causes . . . the respective unions were without power to use payments thereafter tendered by them for such political causes"
In Tierney v. City of Toledo, 824 F.2d 1497 (6th Cir. 1987), the court noted that "[procedures... must afford dissenting non-members a reasonable time to voice their objections and must not be framed so as to discourage the exercise of their First Amendment rights by intimidation or the imposition of unrealistic and excessively complex procedural requirements."
Holding that procedures for dealing with nonmember objections failed to minimize the risk that their First Amendment rights would be burdened because they were not narrowly drawn