Case: Labor Arbitration/Work Hours (Arb.)

Arbitrator William C. Heekin found that Mubea violated the collective bargaining agreement with the union when it changed two employees’ shifts from 12 hours to 10 hours on a given workday without agreeing to a memorandum of understanding with the union on the issue. Mubea argued that the contract provides management with the right to change the shift rotation hours based on its operational needs. However, the union pointed out that right is limited by specific language regarding situations when a continuous 12-hour shift operation is changed to something different, as is the case here. In that case, the contract ...