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"

Ford Motor Co. v. Huffman

Holding that a union acting in its representative capacity owes a duty of fair representation to those on whose behalf it acts

Nat'l Labor Relations Bd. v. City Disposal Systems, Inc.

Holding that a "lone employee's invocation of a right grounded in his collective-bargaining agreement is . . . a concerted activity in a very real sense" because the employee is in effect reminding his employer of the power of the group that brought about the agreement and that could be reharnessed if the employer refuses to respect the employee's objection

N.L.R.B. v. Wright Line, a Div. of Wright Line, Inc.

Holding that the "but for" test applied in a "mixed motive" case under the National Labor Relations Act

United States v. Starks

Holding indictment charging Hobbs Act conspiracy to extort and attempt to extort in the same count was duplicitous

N.L.R.B. v. Consolidated Bus Transit

Interpreting similar language in 29 C.F.R. § 101.10 as meaning "that the Board's procedures are to be controlled by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure as far as practicable" (cleaned up)

N.L.R.B. v. Interboro Contractors, Inc.

In NLRB v. Interboro Contractors, Inc., 388 F.2d 495, 500 (2d Cir. 1967), the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit stated that the efforts of an individual employee acting alone to enforce the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement may be deemed "concerted," and thus protected, at least when the individual's interpretation of the agreement has a reasonable basis.

Eichelberger v. N.L.R.B

Stating that "`something more'" than negligence must be shown

N.L.R.B. v. American Dir. Boring