Holding that the NLRB has the authority to interpret CBAs in the first instance where its interpretation is for the purpose of “enforc[ing] a statutory right which Congress considered necessary to allow labor and management to get on with the process of reaching fair terms and conditions of employment”
318 U.S. 1 (1943) Cited 122 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that RLA was not intended "to strike down state sanitary codes, health regulations, factory inspections, and safety provisions for industry and transportation" and that the RLA "was not a preemption of the field of regulating working conditions themselves."