Minnesota Nurses Association v. North Memorial Health Care

BEAM, Circuit Judge.

Appellant North Memorial Health Care owns and operates Appellant North Memorial Medical Center (North Memorial or Medical Center), a hospital. North Memorial employs nurses represented by Appel-lee, Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA or the Union), which employment is governed by a collective bargaining agreement (CBA). Pursuant to the CBA, North Memorial and MNA referred a grievance to arbitration. Unhappy with the arbitrator’s decision, MNA moved the district court 1 to vacate the arbitral award and the district court granted the motion in part. We affirm.

I. BACKGROUND

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