Worker Must Arbitrate Bias Claims After Switch to Nonunion Job

National lab manager Battelle Energy Alliance LLC can require a security specialist to arbitrate his claims that he was harassed because he’s Hispanic, an Idaho federal judge ruled.

That’s so because the worker had moved to that nonunion-represented position from the union-represented security officer job he held when the harassment allegedly occurred, and Battelle’s employment arbitration program applies to nonunion positions, the US District Court for the District of Idaho said.

That the company knew the employee, who had already filed bias charges with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a state agency, was represented by counsel didn’t invalidate the ...