The applicants filed duty of fair representation complaints against their union for failing to pursue their grievances to arbitration.
The grievances alleged that the employer improperly denied them the right to bump junior employees in a different classification following a layoff.
The union decided not to pursue the grievances based on a uniform past practice requiring employees to have previously performed a job for the employer to be considered qualified to bump into it.
The Board dismissed the applications, finding that the union had honestly considered the merits of the grievances and that its decision was not arbitrary, discriminatory, or in bad faith.
