May 02, 2023
The Fifth Circuit upheld an arbitrator's ruling that the Communications Workers of America waited too long to file a grievance over a fired worker, stating Tuesday the union failed to show that the arbitrator misinterpreted a collective bargaining agreement.
February 08, 2023
A Fifth Circuit panel on Wednesday tried to suss out how much time a collective bargaining agreement gave the Communications Workers of America to escalate an employee grievance, asking the union's attorney at one point whether an arbitrator abused her discretion by ruling the union had missed its deadline.
September 08, 2022
A Yellow Pages distributor asked the Fifth Circuit to sustain its arbitration win against Communications Workers of America in a dispute over a worker's 2014 firing, saying the arbitrator correctly determined the union missed the deadline to take the grievance to the next step.