# National Labor Relations Board v. Granite State Joint Board, Textile Workers Union of America, Local 1029

> Supreme Court of the United States · December 7, 1972 · 409 U.S. 213

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9425068

## Case

- **Full name:** National Labor Relations Board v. Granite State Joint Board, Textile Workers Union of America, Local 1029, Afl-Cio
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** December 7, 1972
- **Citations:** 409 U.S. 213; 81 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2853; 93 S. Ct. 385; 34 L. Ed. 2d 422; 1972 U.S. LEXIS 127
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Burger
- **Judges:** Douglas, Burger, Brennan, Stewart, White, Marshall, Powell, Rehnquist, Blackmun
- **Cited by:** 66 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Mr. Chief Justice Burger,
concurring.
I join the Court’s opinion because for me the institutional needs of the Union, important though they are, do not outweigh the rights and needs of the individual. The balance is close and difficult; unions have need for solidarity and at no time is that need more pressing than under the stress of economic conflict. Yet we have given special protection to the associational rights of individuals in a variety of contexts; through § 7 of the Labor Act, Congress has manifested its concern with those rights in the specific context of our national scheme of collective bargaining. Where the individual employee has freely chosen to exercise his legal right to abandon the privileges of union membership, it is not for us to impose the obligations of continued membership.

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