Legal Opinion
American Federation of Government Employees v. Nicholson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 16, 2007No. 05-5365PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge SENTELLE.
SENTELLE, Circuit Judge.
This case has its roots in a labor dispute between the Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA”) Medical Center in Asheville, North Carolina, and the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Local 446, (“the Union”), which represents operating room nurses who work at the Asheville Medical Center. The Union secured an arbitration award in favor of the Asheville nurses, but a subsequent decision by the VA’s Under Secretary for Health made it impossible for the Union to enforce that award. The Union filed this…
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