Union Arbitration Wins in Firing Disputes Hit 10-Year High (1)

Over the past decade, unions have usually come out on the losing end of arbitrators’ rulings relating to discharges of union-represented employees. But the percentage of arbitration awards in labor’s favor has rebounded from 2020’s low point, and the upward trajectory indicates sustained success for unions, according to Bloomberg Law data.

In the years leading up to the global crisis in 2020, unions’ best showing in arbitration was in 2019, when they won 26% of all awards involving discharged union workers, according to Bloomberg Law’s analysis of arbitration rulings administered by the American Arbitration Association and the Federal Mediation ...