363 U.S. 574 (1960) Cited 5,612 times 6 Legal Analyses
Holding that grievance machinery โis at the very heart of the system of industrial self-governmentโ and the courts should not deny an order to arbitrate โunless it may be said with positive assurance that the arbitration clause is not susceptible of an interpretation that covers the asserted disputeโ
363 U.S. 593 (1960) Cited 3,893 times 2 Legal Analyses
Holding that a reviewing court should not refuse to enforce an arbitral award merely because it would read the collective bargaining agreement differently than the arbitrator
363 U.S. 564 (1960) Cited 2,229 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that because the parties bargained for the โarbitrator's judgment,โ the underlying โquestion of contract interpretationโ is for the arbitrator, and the courts have โno business weighing the merits of the grievanceโ
388 U.S. 307 (1967) Cited 484 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that petitioners, who deliberately violated injunction without first attempting to dissolve injunction, were properly convicted of criminal contempt
421 U.S. 616 (1975) Cited 285 times 6 Legal Analyses
Holding that an agreement between a union and a nonlabor party, which is wholly-unrelated to any collective-bargaining effort on the part of the union and which operates or threatens to operate as a restraint on trade, may be the basis for a federal antitrust suit
Holding that Section 301 gives a federal court jurisdiction over a suit to enforce an arbitration clause in a collective bargaining agreement even if the case is "truly a representation case" that could also be heard by the NLRB under Section 9 of the NLRA
Holding under section 8(b) of the Act, 29 U.S.C. ยง 158(b), that statutory protection for the distribution of handbills would be undermined if a threat to engage in protected conduct were not itself protected