Legal Opinion
Communications Workers of America v. Beck
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 29, 1988No. 86-637PublishedCited by 352 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brennan
Section 8(a)(3) of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA), 49 Stat. 452, as amended, 29 U. S. C: § 158(a)(3), permits an employer and an exclusive bargaining representative to enter into an agreement requiring all employees in the bargaining unit to pay periodic union dues and initiation fees as a condition of continued employment, whether or not the employees otherwise wish to become union members. Today we must decide whether this provision also permits a union, over the objections, of dues-paying nonmember employees, to expend funds so collected on activities unrelated to…
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