Bill Johnson's Restaurants, Inc. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Holding that the NLRB could not bar an employer from pursuing a well-grounded lawsuit for damages under state law

BEK CONSTR. CO. v. NLRB

Holding that the First Amendment right to petition the government extends to the courts

Teachers v. Hudson

Holding that the First Amendment restrains government-compelled exactions of money

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"

Machinists v. Street

Holding that because the individual Street plaintiffs "have in the course of [this action] made known to their respective unions their objection to the use of their money for the support of political causes . . . the respective unions were without power to use payments thereafter tendered by them for such political causes"

Labor Board v. General Motors

Holding that termination is also the appropriate sanction for failure to pay fees under an agency-shop clause

Railway Clerks v. Allen

Holding that, under the RLA, unions are not permitted to spend nonmembers' dues on political activities

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

Quick v. N.L.R.B

Affirming the NLRB's decision not to award attorney fees to a prevailing plaintiff because the plaintiff did not incur attorney fees since he was represented by a non-profit organization and the National Labor Relations Act does not award attorney fees to prevailing parties

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"