386 U.S. 171 (1967) Cited 4,217 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"
Holding that the union would be "absolved of liability" if it could "show some objective justification for its conduct beyond that of placating the desires of the majority of the unit employees at the expense of the minority"
In NLRB v. Niagara Machine Tool Workers, 746 F.2d 143 (2d Cir. 1984), the court stated that the Board's decisions must be deferred to if they are reasonably defensible.
In Whiting, we construed a clause in a multi-employer collective bargaining agreement which provided in substance that "in the event of acquisition by a signatory company of another Union company the seniority of the Union employees of the latter carried over into the acquiring company."