NY Transit Agency Wins Again on Discipline Arbitration Dispute

A New York appellate court on Thursday ruled an arbitrator “impermissibly rewrote” a bargaining agreement between the New York City Transit Authority and the transit workers’ union that impacts disciplinary actions.

It marks a win for the transit agency, which opposed an arbitrator’s finding that employees subject to discipline should be given an initial hearing within 30 calendar days, siding with the employee at the center of the dispute and requiring the agency to pay them for days that exceeded the 30-day timeframe.

The transit agency argued last month the arbitrator wrongly added the term “calendar days” to the contract ...