Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen

Holding that a clause reserving the company's right "at any time to amend the plan" meets the requirements of 29 U.S.C. § 1102(b)

Chemical Workers v. Pittsburgh Glass

Holding retirees are not "employees" within the bargaining unit

Labor Board v. Katz

Holding that "an employer's unilateral change in conditions of employment under negotiation" is a violation of the National Labor Relations Act because "it is a circumvention of the duty to negotiate"

Metropolitan Edison Co. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Holding that a union may, under certain circumstances, waive members' NLRA rights

H. K. Porter Co. v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Holding that the NLRB is "without power to compel a company or a union to agree to any substantive contractual provision of a collective-bargaining agreement."

Labor Board v. Borg-Warner Corp.

Holding employer's insistence on a ballot clause was an unfair labor practice under § 8 because it was a non-mandatory subject of bargaining and it "substantially modifies the collective-bargaining system provided for in the statute by weakening the independence of the 'representative' chosen by the employees. It enables the employer, in effect, to deal with its employees rather than with their statutory representative."

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. C & C Plywood Corp.

Holding that the NLRB has the authority to interpret CBAs in the first instance where its interpretation is for the purpose of “enforc[ing] a statutory right which Congress considered necessary to allow labor and management to get on with the process of reaching fair terms and conditions of employment”

Gable v. Sweetheart Cup Co.

Holding that a "modification clause, standing alone, is more than sufficient to defeat plaintiffs' claim that the company provided vested benefits and thus waived its statutory right to modify or terminate the health benefit plan"

Gable v. Sweetheart Cup Co.

N.L.R.B. v. U.S. Postal Service

Upholding postal service's exercise of contractual right to reduce employees' hours in response to budget reduction

Section 151 - Findings and declaration of policy

Finding that "protection by law of the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively safeguards commerce" and declaring a policy of "encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining"