Case: Labor Relations/Fair Representation (N.D. Ill.)

Service Employees International Union, Local 73 is entitled to summary judgment on the hybrid breach of contract and duty of fair representation claim of terminated former union employees under Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, a federal district court in Illinois ruled. The employees claimed that SEIU didn’t have just cause to fire them for their association with a website that was critical of co-trustees of the local and proposed a slate of future leadership. The court determined that the Service Employees Staff Union didn’t breach its fair-representation duty by declining to take their grievances to arbitration, given ...