Wisconsin Employment Relations Board v. Journeymen Barbers, Hairdressers, Cosmetologists & Proprietors International Union

For many years the craft unions organized by the American Federation of Labor in the skilled trades have followed the policy that, where an employer works with the tools of his trade, he, as well as his employees, must be members of the union in order that the employer be considered as operating a “union shop.” Pursuant to this policy the barbers union has provided by sec. 5, art. VII of its constitution, as follows: “No [union] shop card shall be displayed in a barber or beauty shop unless all persons working in the shop with the tools of the trade are members of the union in good standing.”…