Local Union 1287 v. Kansas City Area Transportation Authority

COVINGTON, Judge.

Local 1287, Amalgamated Transit Union, and Javier M. Perez, Jr. (“The Union”), sought an order to compel the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (“KCATA”) to engage in interest arbitration to set the wages, terms and conditions of employment to replace an earlier agreement. KCATA opposed the order alleging that to compel KCATA to engage in interest arbitration would violate art. II, § 1, of the Missouri Constitution, that the agreements upon which the Union relied to compel arbitration were no longer in effect, and that the Union had failed to exhaust all reasonable…