March 31, 2022
The Metropolitan Opera can keep its arbitration win in a dispute over whether staffing pay-per-view opera performances with nonunion workers violated its contract with a broadcasters' union, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday, holding that the arbitrator's decision was rooted in an analysis of the collective bargaining agreement.
April 30, 2021
An arbitrator ignored and misinterpreted key evidence when she ruled pay-per-view opera performances staffed by nonunion workers did not violate a labor contract between the Metropolitan Opera and a broadcasters union, the union has argued in a petition seeking to set the award aside.