That is incredibly harsh! Because the Union had a good-faith belief that the wage language did not cover bonuses, they file a ULP, the Board doesn’t just defer the case, and then they lose the ULP because the ALJ believes that the language does in fact cover the grievance, and now what might have been a viable grievance gets timelined because it never got deferred in the first place.
Is there something I’m missing? Haven’t read the decision myself.
Zipper clauses will come back to bite you.
That is incredibly harsh! Because the Union had a good-faith belief that the wage language did not cover bonuses, they file a ULP, the Board doesn’t just defer the case, and then they lose the ULP because the ALJ believes that the language does in fact cover the grievance, and now what might have been a viable grievance gets timelined because it never got deferred in the first place.
Is there something I’m missing? Haven’t read the decision myself.