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ibew Vs. Foust

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  • US Supreme Court
  • May 29, 1979

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  1. Vaca Vs. Sipes US Supreme Court · Feb 27, 1967
  2. Humphrey Vs. Moore US Supreme Court · Jan 06, 1964
  3. Machinists Vs. Street US Supreme Court · Jun 19, 1961
  4. Ford Motor Co. Vs. Huffman US Supreme Court · Apr 06, 1953
  5. Conley Vs. Gibson US Supreme Court · Nov 18, 1957
  6. U.S. 42 (1979) U.S. Supreme Court IBEW v. Foust
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  7. U.S. 42 (1979) International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Foust
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  8. a Page 442 U. S. 46 union has acted wantonly or in reckless disregard of an employee's rights. See Harrison v. United
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  9. U.S. 892 (1978). II This Court first recognized the statutory duty of fair representation in Steele v. Louisville
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  10. Humphrey v. Moore
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  11. Hines v. Anchor
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  12. members during the negotiation, administration, and enforcement of collective bargaining agreements. See, e.g., Conley v. Gibson
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  13. Steele v. Louisville
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  14. Textile Workers v. Page
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  15. Clearfield Trust Co. v. United
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  16. Gertz v. Robert
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  17. Because actual damages caused by a union's failure to pursue grievances may be de minimis, see Harrison v. United
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  18. St. Clair v. Local
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  19. injured employee whole. Id. at 323 U. S. 206 -207. This compensation principle was again invoked in Vaca v. Sipes
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  20. Because juries are accorded broad discretion both as to the imposition and amount of punitive damages, see Gertz v. Robert
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  21. pp. 13-14, the impact of these windfall recoveries is unpredictable, and potentially substantial. Cf. Hall v. Cole
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  22. union, is simply too great a price for whatever deterrent effect punitive damages may have. Cf. Automobile Workers v. Russell
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  23. Court has refused to permit punitive sanctions in certain unfair labor practice cases, see, e.g., Republic Steel Corp. v. NLRB
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  24. Carpenters v. NLRB
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  25. Teamsters v. Morton
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  26. Virginian R. Co. v. Railway
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  27. Republic Steel Corp. v. NLRB
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  28. Deboles v. Trans
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  29. World Airlines, Inc., 552 F.2d 1005, 1019 (CA3), cert. denied, 434 U.S. 837 (1977). See also Williams v. Pacific
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  30. See Butler v. Teamsters
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  31. Emmanuel v. Omaha
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  32. Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde
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  33. Berenyi v. Immigration
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  34. Railway Labor Act, affords unions exclusive power to represent all employees of a bargaining unit. See, e.g., Syres v. Oil
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  35. the Court has applied Vaca's apportionment principle to cases arising under the Railway Labor Act. In Czosek v. O'Mara
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  36. toward unions, management, or minority views can thus find expression in punitive awards. See Automobile Workers v. Russell
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  37. the Court wrote in Vaca v. Sipes
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  38. Depending on the circumstances of the particular breach, the Court wrote in Steele v. Louisville
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  39. U. S. 52 . The Court cites two major cases to support this theory. Neither is apposite. In Republic Steel Corp. v. NLRB
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  40. and the authority to impose punitive sanctions in their efforts to devise a federal law of remedies. In Teamsters v. Morton
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  41. U.S. Supreme Court IBEW v. Foust
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  42. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Foust
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  43. See Harrison v. United
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  44. Clearfield Trust Co. v. United
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  45. Harrison v. United
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  46. Cf. Hall v. Cole
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  47. Cf. Automobile Workers v. Russell
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  48. Republic Steel Corp. v. NLRB
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  49. Williams v. Pacific
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  50. Syres v. Oil
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