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"

Radio Officers v. Labor Board

Holding that "[t]he policy of the Act is to insulate employees' jobs from their organizational rights"

Labor Board v. General Motors

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

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

Upholding the NLRB's interpretation of the Act

Scofield v. Nat'l Labor Relations Bd.

Upholding union rule, enforceable by fines and expulsion, imposing limitation on immediate pay that members could receive for piecework because Court found no "impairment of statutory labor policy"

Intern. Union of Elevator, Etc. v. N.L.R.B

Stating that the proviso to section 8(b) "has been interpreted to allow enforcement of union rules with a legitimate purpose, which do not conflict with national labor policy, so long as members are free to escape union discipline by resignation" (emphasis added; footnote omitted)

N.L.R.B. v. Int. L. W. Union Local 13