yellow dog contracts
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 335 U.S. 525 - Lincoln Federal Labor Union No 19129 American Federation of Labor v. Northwestern Iron & Metal Co Whitaker · 1949Most cited · 508 citing opinions
Before hiring workers, employers required them to sign agreements stating that the workers were not and would not become labor union members. Such anti-union practices were so obnoxious to workers that they gave these required agreements the name of 'yellow dog contracts.
How often courts cite the case defining “yellow dog contracts”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “yellow dog contracts” — 508 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.