Case: Labor Arbitration/Work Assignments (Arb.)

Arbitrator Matthew M. Franckiewicz granted the union’s grievance regarding whether Mobis should have offered workers 40 hours of work during a week in which it did work for one of its contract partners, stating that such action was required under the collective bargaining agreement. Mobis argued that the CBA only provided for the workers to be offered work on individual days where they did work for the contract partner. However, Arbitrator Franckiewicz found that bargaining history minutes, the understanding of the company’s prime negotiator during the last round of bargaining, and the parties’ joint communication to employees shortly after the ...