PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE v. N.L.R.B.

No. 83-1045.

724 F.2d 57 (1983)

PATTERN MAKERS' LEAGUE OF NORTH AMERICA, AFL-CIO, and Its Rockford and Beloit Associations, Petitioners, v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent, and Rockford-Beloit Pattern Jobbers Association, Intervening Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 21, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurence Gold, Washington, D.C., for petitioners.

Barbara Atkin, Assoc. Gen. Counsel, Elliott Moore, N.L.R.B., Washington, D.C., for respondent.

Edward J. Fahy, Fahy & Cheney, Ltd., Rockford, Ill., for intervening-respondent.

Before BAUER, ESCHBACH and COFFEY, Circuit Judges.


BAUER, Circuit Judge.

The issue squarely confronting us is whether a union in its constitution may deny its members the opportunity to resign from the union during a strike or when a strike is imminent. The United States Supreme Court twice has acknowledged, but has not been required to decide, this issue. Booster Lodge No. 405 v. NLRB, 412 U.S. 84, 88-90, 93 S.Ct. 1961, 1964-1965, 36 L.Ed.2d 764 (1973); NLRB v. Granite State...

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