495 U.S. 362 (1990) Cited 571 times 1 Legal Analyses
Holding that union could contractually undertake, in collective bargaining agreement, other duties towards member employees in addition to statutorily-imposed duty of fair representation
In Plumbers Pipe Fitters, two employees established that the union-run hiring hall had failed to use a ranking system or other objective criteria in its referral of rig welders.
In Jacoby, the D.C. Circuit reiterated the reasoning it articulated in Plumbers Pipe Fitters in holding that the duty of fair representation also precludes departures from established exclusive hiring hall procedures and that the Board had articulated an erroneous view of the law in concluding that the duty of fair representation did not apply when such departures were caused by union negligence. 233 F.3d at 616-17.
In Boilermakers, 852 F.2d at 1353, and later in Plumbers Pipe Fitters Local Union No. 32 v. NLRB, 50 F.3d 29, 34 (D.C. Cir. 1995), this court set forth the parameters of the heightened duty standard in hiring hall cases.