Pocono Hospital v. Pennsylvania Nurses Ass'n

VICAN, J.,

Petitioner hospital and respondent union entered into a collective bargaining agreement on May 15, 1982, following a lengthy strike by the nurses association. This agreement encompassed the contractual rights of both full- and part-time nursing personnel employed by petitioner hospital. After the nurses had returned to work, a dispute arose between the union and the hospital regarding the order in which the nurses had been recalled.

The collective bargaining agreement provided for a three-step internal grievance procedure to be followed prior to submitting a grievance to arbitration.…