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"

Air Line Pilots v. O'Neill

Holding that this rule "applies to all union activity"

Marquez v. Screen Actors Guild

Holding that discretionary actions taken by the union on a member's behalf are not arbitrary even where the member can demonstrate they were "erroneous or unsuccessful."

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"

Pattern Makers' League v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Upholding the NLRB's interpretation of the Act

Anti-Monopoly, Inc. v. Hasbro, Inc.

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. Granite State Joint Board, Textile Workers Union of America, Local 1029

In NLRB v. Textile Workers, supra, and Machinists v. NLRB, 412 U.S. 84 (1973) (per curiam), the Court found as a corollary that unions may not fine former members who have resigned lawfully.

Abrams v. Communications Workers of America

Finding that thirty-day window period for objecting to fees was not unduly burdensome

International Ass'n of Machinists & Aerospace Workers v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Noting that in challenge to extra-unit fees, litigation expenses were "treated separately by the parties but [are] analytically identical, as far as we can see"

Allen v. Allied Plant Maintenance Co.

Affirming a 35 percent reduction for "limited success"