Case: Labor Arbitration/Arbitrability (Arb.)

The union’s 2022 grievance alleging that Huntington Ingalls Industries violated Article 9 of the CBA when it didn’t negotiate a new inspector classification is denied, Arbitrator J. Maxwell Williams held. While the union never pursued arbitration when the company denied its 2013 grievance of non-destructive testing employees being given additional visual test duties without wage increase negotiations, it participated in three CBA negotiations since 2015 where wages for these employees did increase. The 2022 grievance wasn’t procedurally arbitrable because it involved “substantially similar facts and circumstances” as to the grievance approximately nine years earlier, and the arbitrator was precluded from ...