Vaca v. Sipes

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"

Humphrey v. Moore

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

Breininger v. Sheet Metal Workers

Holding that failure of union to refer plaintiff for employment was not cognizable under the LMRDA because it did not involve "discipline"

Ford Motor Co. v. Huffman

Holding that a union acting in its representative capacity owes a duty of fair representation to those on whose behalf it acts

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"

Steele v. L. N.R. Co.

Holding that a labor organization must represent all members of a "craft or class of employees . . . regardless of their union affiliations or want of them"

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

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

Wallace Corp. v. Labor Board

Holding that corporation committed unfair labor practice

N.L.R.B. v. Miranda Fuel Co., Inc.

N.L.R.B. v. P.P.G. Industries, Inc.

In N.L.R.B. v. P.P.G. Industries, Inc., 579 F.2d 1057, 1059 (7th Cir. 1978), it was recognized that "while a union has a wide discretion in deciding whether to take a grievance to arbitration, once the claim is taken to arbitration, the union must advocate the employee's position."

Section 158 - Unfair labor practices

Granting employees a wage increase without bargaining with Local 355

Section 151 - Findings and declaration of policy

Finding that "protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce" and declaring a policy of "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining"

Section 152 - Definitions

Defining a supervisor to include “any individual having authority . . . to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, but requires the use of independent judgment”

Section 151 - Definitions; short title

Defining "minor dispute" as disputes "growing out of grievances or out of the interpretation or application of agreements covering rates of pay, rules, or working conditions."

Section 159 - Representatives and elections

Granting a bargaining unit the exclusive right to represent employees in it

Section 401 - Congressional declaration of findings, purposes, and policy

Finding that the LMRDA was essential to "afford necessary protection of the rights and interests of employees and the public generally as they relate to the activities of labor organizations . . ."

Section 412 - Civil action for infringement of rights; jurisdiction

Granting a cause of action to "[a]ny person whose rights secured by the provisions of this subchapter have been infringed by any violation of this subchapter"

Section 164 - Construction of provisions

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