# Pattern Makers' League v. National Labor Relations Board

> Supreme Court of the United States · June 27, 1985 · 473 U.S. 95

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9430149

## Case

- **Full name:** PATTERN MAKERS’ LEAGUE OF NORTH AMERICA, AFL-CIO, Et Al. v. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD Et Al.
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** June 27, 1985
- **Citations:** 473 U.S. 95; 53 U.S.L.W. 4928; 119 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2928; 105 S. Ct. 3064; 87 L. Ed. 2d 68; 1985 U.S. LEXIS 84
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Stevens
- **Judges:** Powell, Burger, White, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Blackmun, Brennan, Marshall, Stevens
- **Cited by:** 111 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing right of employees to refrain from concerted union activities by being able to resign union membership without interference.
- stating that “[u]nder Section 8(b)(1)(A

## Opinion text

Justice Stevens,
dissenting.
The legislative history of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, discussed in Part I-B of Justice Blackmun’s dissenting opinion, coupled with the plain language in the proviso to § 8(b)(1)(A), persuades me that the “right to refrain” protected by §7 of the Act does not encompass the “right to resign.” Accordingly, I respectfully dissent.

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