Case: Labor Arbitration/Wages (Arb.)

Arbitrator Mark Berger ruled that Textron Aviation didn’t violate its CBA when, following Covid-19 furloughs and the 2020-2021 holiday shutdown, it chose to reopen on Monday January 4, thereby causing machine operators on a 3x12 hour work schedule comprising of Sunday, Friday, and Saturday to lose a day’s compensation on their first week back at work. He found that nothing in the CBA guaranteed the grievants a full workweek of 36 hours; rather it provided that when employees on a 3x12 schedule worked 36 hours they would be paid forty hours. The parties’ identification in the CBA of instances of ...