Case: Labor Arbitration/Contract Arbitration (Arb.)

King County, Washington violated its CBA with Teamsters Local 175 when it used Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) technology to discover alleged violations in the first instance and to counsel or discipline solid waste drivers, rather than to investigate alleged violations for which it already had reasonable suspicion, based on evidence from an independent source, Arbitrator Kenneth J. Latsch ruled. He also found that the county violated the CBA by storing data in the Solid Waste Division rather than with the Information Technology department to reinforce the idea that AVL data must be retrieved for a specific disciplinary reason based on ...