Streeter v. Industrial Commission

Counsel for the four employee plaintiffs contends that the employer could not rely on the provision of the collective-bargaining contract authorizing it to discharge employees who engaged in an unauthorized work stoppage and fail to abide by another clause of the contract which provided for arbitration of discharges. It is counsel’s further position that disciplinary discharges for work stoppages are not effective until arbitrated, if arbitration has been requested. It is undisputed that the union did request arbitration of the discharges and that the employer ignored such request.

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