February 17, 2022
The Eighth Circuit upheld a district court's decision ordering a Kansas-based medical center to arbitrate a grievance from a nurses union over the hospital's staffing policy, saying the dispute is not exempt from arbitration under the parties' collective bargaining agreement.
April 28, 2021
A Missouri federal judge on Wednesday ordered a Kansas City hospital to arbitrate a staffing policy dispute with its nurses union, saying the fight is over the possible loss of union work and not the employer's process for allocating staff based on needs.
February 25, 2021
A Kansas City, Missouri, hospital cannot dodge a nurses' union's suit to force arbitration over claims the hospital assigned bargaining unit work to supervisors, a federal judge ruled, saying the union showed it's plausible the dispute belongs in arbitration under its labor contract.