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Auto Workers Local 909 (General Motors Corp.-Powertrain)

325 N.L.R.B. 859 (N.L.R.B. 1998)
Auto Workers Local 909 (General Motors Corp.-Powertrain)

10 Cited authorities

  1. Vaca v. Sipes

    386 U.S. 171 (1967)   Cited 4,209 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, under the LMRA, an "individual employee has absolute right to have his grievance taken to arbitration regardless of the provisions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement"

  2. Air Line Pilots v. O'Neill

    499 U.S. 65 (1991)   Cited 1,076 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that this rule "applies to all union activity"

  3. Steelworkers v. Rawson

    495 U.S. 362 (1990)   Cited 571 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that union could contractually undertake, in collective bargaining agreement, other duties towards member employees in addition to statutorily-imposed duty of fair representation

  4. Humphrey v. Moore

    375 U.S. 335 (1964)   Cited 760 times
    Holding that the union did not breach its duty of fair representation in negotiating a deal which favored some members of the same bargaining unit over others

  5. Ford Motor Co. v. Huffman

    345 U.S. 330 (1953)   Cited 881 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a union acting in its representative capacity owes a duty of fair representation to those on whose behalf it acts

  6. Electrical Workers v. Foust

    442 U.S. 42 (1979)   Cited 378 times
    Holding that the weight of authority finds that punitive damages are private fines levied by civil juries

  7. Souter v. International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers, Local 72

    993 F.2d 595 (7th Cir. 1993)   Cited 102 times
    In Souter, the plaintiff, who was African-American, sued his labor union for a breach of duty under section 301 of Labor Management Relations Act. He submitted evidence of racially-derisive graffiti on the walls of the automobile plant where he worked and contended that "a racist atmosphere pervaded the [plant] and contributed to hostile attitudes on the part of the union.

  8. Lewis v. Tuscan Dairy Farms, Inc.

    25 F.3d 1138 (2d Cir. 1994)   Cited 83 times
    Finding bad faith because union concealed from employees a secret oral agreement sacrificing seniority rights while assuring the employees that they would receive these rights

  9. International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, Machine & Furniture Workers v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

    41 F.3d 1532 (D.C. Cir. 1994)   Cited 43 times   1 Legal Analyses
    In IUE, the court held that the facts in the case did not make out a breach of the duty of fair representation, as there was no basis in the record to support the NLRB's finding that the Union engaged in bad faith conduct.

  10. Le'mon v. N.L.R.B

    952 F.2d 1203 (10th Cir. 1991)   Cited 12 times
    Reviewing for substantial evidence where Board found no breach of duty