Recent filings to vacate arbitration awards – Past Practice,Outsourcing, Remedies

   Chicago Tribune, LLC v. Teamsters Local Union No. 727 (ND Ill.)The Chicago Tribune seeks to vacate an Award of Arbitrator Amedeo Greco. Arbitrator Greco upheld a grievance claiming that the Company refused to pay employees "gap time" pay the Union claimed was required by the cba and past practice. The Tribune's Complaint asserts that the Arbitrator exceeded his authority and improperly modified the cba "when he gave legal effect to a past practice which finds no support in the clear and unambiguous terms of the CBA."  According to the complaint:Despite the fact that the CBA does not provide for the payment of ten hour gap time pay to a driver for performing work during the driver's scheduled day or night shift, the Arbitrator wrote such a requirement into the CBA and disregarded the limitations on his authority.Rockwell Collins, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1362 (ND Iowa)Arbitrator Robert…

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