Case: Labor Arbitration/Collective Bargaining (Arb.)

Arbitrator John T. Nicholas ruled that the Social Security Administration, in the course of attempting to terminate all memorandums of understanding and negotiating a new CBA with the Association of Administrative Law Judges, negotiated in bad faith and thereby committed five unfair labor practices. These included forcing to impasse a waiver of the union’s right to bargain over: (1) the permissible subject of telework via an intransigent last best offer; (2) the permissible subjects in the MOUs by insisting on elimination of all MOUs as a prerequisite to a new CBA, and (3) the permissible subject of facilities and services ...