by Mark Travis | Mar 11, 2022 | Arbitration, Labor Law
In Warrior Met Coal Mining LLC v. United Mine Workers of America District 20 (11th Cir., No. 21-10523, 3/4/2022), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama had vacated an arbitrator’s award which reduced a discharge to a 60-day...
by Mark Travis | Mar 1, 2022 | Labor Law
In Plumbers & Pipefitters Locals and West Virginia Pipe Trades Health & Welfare Fund v. Nitro Construction Services, Inc. (4th Cir., No. 20-2080, 2/23/22), the Local Unions and Nitro Construction were parties to collective bargaining agreements which...
by Mark Travis | Feb 23, 2022 | Arbitration, Labor Law
In National Nurses Organizing Committee – Missouri & Kansas/National Nurses United v. Midwest Division – RMC LLC, 8th Cir., No. 21-2200 (2/17/22), the Union filed a grievance against the employer-hospital over the Hospital’s posting of a “staffing grid” which...
by Mark Travis | Feb 2, 2022 | Labor Law
In American Federation of Government Employees v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, D.C. Cir., No. 20-1938 (1/28/22) the petitioner Union challenged a 2020 Policy Statement of the Federal Labor Relations Authority that announced for the first time that zipper clauses...
by Mark Travis | Feb 2, 2022 | Arbitration, Labor Law
In Johnson Controls Security Solutions, LLC v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 103, No. 21-1460, 2022 WL 262963 (1st Cir. 1/28/22), the First Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the district court’s declaratory judgment in favor of Johnson...
by Mark Travis | Jan 24, 2022 | Arbitration, Labor Law
Last week, an arbitrator ruled that former University of Connecticut head basketball coach Kevin Ollie was wrongfully terminated from his job in 2018 and awarded over $11 million in damages. The case is interesting for a number of reasons. First, the arbitrator who...
