Anchorage Police Department Employees Ass'n v. Feichtinger

OPINION

EASTAUGH, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

A municipal employee sued his union for breach of the union’s duty of fair representation because it refused to represent him in an arbitration in which he unsuccessfully challenged his termination. The superior court denied the union’s motion for summary judgment, and the union now petitions for review of that denial. We hold that if a union’s breach of its duty of fair representation seriously undermines the integrity of the arbitral process, the arbitration decision may lose its preclusive effect. We conclude that a genuine issue of material fact…