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

Public Employee Representative Union Local 5 in Ohio and the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association, a statewide labor organization, defeated the hybrid federal labor law claims of an OCSEA staff representative. He alleged that OCSEA violated its labor contract with PERU by discharging him without cause, and that the union failed to fairly represent him in the grievance process, after his female supervisor allegedly repeatedly sexually harassed him, and he took a stress-related short-term disability leave, but never returned to work. The staff representative failed to show that PERU breached its duty to represent him, in that a union steward ...