476 U.S. 467 (1986) Cited 4,740 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding claims collateral because plaintiffs "neither sought nor were awarded benefits ... but rather challenged the Secretary’s failure to follow the application regulations"
Holding that a plaintiff first must establish that the union breached its duty of fair representation before a court may consider evidence of an employer's alleged violation of a CBA
Holding that section 10(b) limitations period begins to run when the employee "discovers, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should have discovered, the acts constituting the alleged [violation]"
Concluding that under principles of agency law the union was responsible for the misdeeds of employees that volunteered to, among other things, solicit other employees to sign authorization cards