August 24, 2023
The operator of a Baltimore wharf and sugar refinery was within its rights to fire a unionized employee for urinating near unprocessed sugar, a Maryland federal judge ruled Thursday, because public policy interests in favor of sanitary food outweighed the worker's just-cause protections.
February 14, 2023
An International Longshoremen's Association local challenged a bid from a Baltimore trade association and sugar refinery to vacate an arbitrator's decision finding a union member was wrongly fired for urinating on a dock and in a break room, telling a Maryland federal judge that the ruling was proper.
November 07, 2022
A Baltimore trade association and a sugar refinery urged a Maryland federal judge to throw out an arbitration award saying the company wrongly terminated a union-represented worker who urinated on a dock and in a break room, saying the employee's actions are a "major violation" justifying his firing.