Chemical Workers v. Pittsburgh Glass

Holding retirees are not "employees" within the bargaining unit

Fibreboard Corp. v. Labor Board

Holding that the "contracting out" of work traditionally performed by bargaining unit employees is a mandatory subject of bargaining under the NLRA

First National Maintenance Corp. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Holding that an employer has no duty to bargain over a decision to shut down part of its business purely for economic reasons

Textile Workers v. Darlington Co.

Holding that an employer has the absolute right, at least as far as the NLRA is concerned, to terminate his entire business for any reason

Teamsters Union v. Oliver

In Teamsters v. Oliver, 358 U.S. 283 (1959), we held that a state antitrust law could not be used to challenge an employer-union agreement. Justice White's opinion in Jewel Tea explains, however, that Oliver held only that "[a]s the agreement did not embody a `"remote and indirect approach to the subject of wages'... but a direct frontal attack upon a problem thought to threaten the maintenance of the basic wage structure established by the collective bargaining contract,' [358 U.S.], at 294, the paramount federal policy of encouraging collective bargaining proscribed application of the state law.

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Entwistle Mfg. Co.