Exclusive Representation In 1981, the company laid off more than 100 cmployees because of an economic recession. The existing contract already provided that laid-off employees would accrue "continuous service credit for two years and would retain continuous service credit for an additional five-year period. In addition, the union negotiated additional benefits for these laid-off employees. One of the benefits was a commitment by the company that these laid-off employees would be "offered future employment opportunities with the company in the event positions opened up Eleven years later, in 1992, the company needed employees, and it notified the former employees and offered them interviews. Some were sehired. However, 16 former employees who were still union members were not rehired. They sought the help of their union in filing a grievance against the company, claiming that the company had violated the contract by not chiring them. The union declined, saying that because these union members were no longer employees of the company, they were not part of the bargaining unit and the union had no duty to represent them. The 16 former employees argued that under the agreement negotiated by the union while they were employees, they had acquired cenain protections and that it was now the union's duty to enforce those protections. Because the former employees could not pursue the grievance without the union, the negotiated protections would be meaningless if the union failed to represent them. The 16 former employees sued the union. QUESTIONS 1. Define Arbitration in labor Disputes 2. Suppose that this grevance happened in UAE, and the 16 former employees are members of conciliation board. Could their leid utif pervenu performance of their duties on the Board Seart Adapted from abordat die begin Private and Public Sector Edition by Michael Camille 2 Pear P 3. If the supreme arbitration committee in UAE rules (aws) that the union has no duty to represent these former employees, saplain if the former employees can or cannot pursue their grease against the company Exclusive Representation In 1981, the company laid off more than 100 cmployees because of an economic recession. The existing contract already provided that laid-off employees would accrue "continuous service credit for two years and would retain continuous service credit for an additional five-year period. In addition, the union negotiated additional benefits for these laid-off employees. One of the benefits was a commitment by the company that these laid-off employees would be "offered future employment opportunities with the company in the event positions opened up Eleven years later, in 1992, the company needed employees, and it notified the former employees and offered them interviews. Some were sehired. However, 16 former employees who were still union members were not rehired. They sought the help of their union in filing a grievance against the company, claiming that the company had violated the contract by not chiring them. The union declined, saying that because these union members were no longer employees of the company, they were not part of the bargaining unit and the union had no duty to represent them. The 16 former employees argued that under the agreement negotiated by the union while they were employees, they had acquired cenain protections and that it was now the union's duty to enforce those protections. Because the former employees could not pursue the grievance without the union, the negotiated protections would be meaningless if the union failed to represent them. The 16 former employees sued the union. QUESTIONS 1. Define Arbitration in labor Disputes 2. Suppose that this grevance happened in UAE, and the 16 former employees are members of conciliation board. Could their leid utif pervenu performance of their duties on the Board Seart Adapted from abordat die begin Private and Public Sector Edition by Michael Camille 2 Pear P 3. If the supreme arbitration committee in UAE rules (aws) that the union has no duty to represent these former employees, saplain if the former employees can or cannot pursue their grease against the company