The NRLB say that employees have the right to be represented by their union fairly, in good faith, and without discrimination. It also says that the union has the duty to represent all employees whether they are members of the union or not. This duty applies anything the union may deal with in regards to representation of the employees, including collective bargaining and the handling grievances. The National Labor Relations Act gave the unions a wide-range of authority in negotiating and administering collective bargaining agreements.() Due to this wide-range of authority that the unions had the courts realized that employees needed individual protection and the doctrine of the union's duty of fair representation was that protection. In the
