National Labor Relations Board v. Milk Drivers & Dairy Employees, Local 338

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

Basic to the National Labor Relations Act is an overriding policy to insulate employees’ positions from their union activities. The Act’s provisions were designed to permit workers to exercise freely the right to join unions, to be active'or passive members, or to abstain from joining any union at all without imperiling their right to a livelihood. Radio Officers’ Union v. N.L.R.B., 347 U.S. 17, 39-42, 74 S.Ct. 323, 335-*1164337, 98 L.Ed. 455, 476-478 (1954). The issue we must resolve is whether this clear statutory purpose is contravened by a clause in a…