Holding employer's "failure to ever comply with any of the terms of the contract and his continuing failure to pay into the Union's fringe benefit funds constituted a total repudiation of the contract"
In Letter Carriers, the court distinguished a local referendum to choose between alternative leave provisions in the executed national contract from the type of contract ratification vote involved in the instant case; the court expressly noted that a contract ratification procedure restricted to union members "is consistent with negotiation of a tentative contract by the bargaining agent, acting in a representative capacity, and with observance of the duty of fair representation."