Case: Labor Arbitration/Discharge (Arb.)

The Montana Highway Patrol didn’t have just cause to terminate the grievant for sending a state strategic improvement committee report reflecting trooper morale issues to the union in contravention to an MHP major’s verbal and written “no dissemination order,” Arbitrator Jeffrey W. Jacobs ruled. The grievant—a state trooper, president of the union, and committee member who was aware of the order—sent the report to her personal email and the union, who sent it to the press. Because the National Labor Relations Act prohibits rules requiring employees to secure employer consent to engage in Section 7 activities “for mutual aid and ...