Communications Workers of America v. Beck

Holding that non-members could not be charged "to support union activities beyond those germane to collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment"

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.

Holding that majority rule concept is at the center of federal labor policy

Labor Board v. General Motors

Holding that termination is also the appropriate sanction for failure to pay fees under an agency-shop clause

Pattern Makers' League v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Upholding the NLRB's interpretation of the Act

Scofield v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Upholding union rule, enforceable by fines and expulsion, imposing limitation on immediate pay that members could receive for piecework because Court found no "impairment of statutory labor policy"

Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. Hasbro, Inc.

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Granite State Joint Board, Textile Workers Union of America, Local 1029

In NLRB v. Textile Workers, supra, and Machinists v. NLRB, 412 U.S. 84 (1973) (per curiam), the Court found as a corollary that unions may not fine former members who have resigned lawfully.

International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Noting that in challenge to extra-unit fees, litigation expenses were "treated separately by the parties but [are] analytically identical, as far as we can see"

N.L.R.B. v. Office Pro. Emp. Int. U., Local

In NLRB v. Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 2, 902 F.2d 1164, 1165-66 (4th Cir. 1990), Janet Love was an employee who had resigned from the union in a state with a right-to-work law, but was then transferred within the same bargaining unit to another state and forced to rejoin under a union security clause in the collective bargaining agreement, since the new state did not have a right-to-work law.

Section 164 - Construction of provisions

Providing that federal law does not authorize union security clauses in right-to-work states