Legal Opinion
Massachusetts Nurses Ass'n v. North Adams Regional Hospital
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 26, 2006No. 05-2799PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to mull the circumstances in which a union, having successfully arbitrated a grievance, may leverage the award to bypass procedures prescribed by a collective bargaining agreement and obtain direct federal court relief for subsequent episodes of alleged employer misconduct. In the case at hand, the district court thwarted the union’s attempt to short-circuit the grievance process, finding too great a disparity between the facts underlying the initial complaints and those giving rise to the subsequent complaints. After careful consideration, we…
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