Tripartite arbitration and work jurisdiction disputes

Reversing the District Court, the Seventh Circuit has found that a dispute between Brock Industrial Services and two of its unions (the Carpenters and the Laborers) was a jurisdictional dispute excluded from arbitration under the Laborer's cba with Brock. Under the applicable cba, work-jurisdiction disputes were subject to a separate tripartite procedure. Brock Industrial Services, LLC v. Laborers International UnionBrock had initially assigned certain scaffolding work to employees represented by the Laborers. Shortly thereafter, however, it reassigned that work to employees represented by the Carpenters. The Laborers filed a grievance under its own cba, and pursued that dispute through the dispute resolution procedure under the agreement. The Grievance Review Subcommittee of the National Maintenance Agreement Policy Council rejected Brock's claim that the matter was one of jurisdiction, outside the authority of the Subcommittee, and found that Brock had violated the…

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