United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1988-03-02
Case and law context
Role: applied; posture: Board enforcement proceeding over requested identities of union officers seeking supervisory posts; disclosure/privacy and relevance objections resolved.; result: claimant-won; claim: (a)
Instances and excluded annotation blocks
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| /f2d/841/0141-01 — United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1988 | Alternative breaches of applicable collective-bargaining duties | satisfied Counted merits instance applied / merits basis: law; claim: (a); theory: information disclosure; subject: theory=information disclosure The duty is applied to specific relevant information; relevance and the employer’s privacy interests are balanced, not assumed from every union request. | information/refusal-to-identify-potentially-conflicted-representatives | Gene Cole, the Detroit MSC’s Postmaster, responded by letter and refused to provide the union with the information until its relevance to the collective bargaining process was explained.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f2d_841.jsonl#/f2d/841/0141-01; Unicode character offsets [6651:6837] (end exclusive); SHA-256 cdb9c687b3fe037ff5d885f593b297e4e0d36e897a91fa18b5affd0d1b33cf70.Generally, an employer’s duty to bargain collectively established in § 8(a)(5) of the National Labor Relations Act , obligates it to provide a labor union with relevant information necessary for the proper performance of the union’s duties as the employees’ bargaining representative.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f2d_841.jsonl#/f2d/841/0141-01; Unicode character offsets [8875:9159] (end exclusive); SHA-256 cdb9c687b3fe037ff5d885f593b297e4e0d36e897a91fa18b5affd0d1b33cf70.Therefore, we find that the union’s interest in the disclosure of the information is relevant to its duty to provide loyal representation and is not outweighed by the Postal Service's interest.Source: docroot/ir/caselaw/f2d_841.jsonl#/f2d/841/0141-01; Unicode character offsets [17562:17755] (end exclusive); SHA-256 cdb9c687b3fe037ff5d885f593b297e4e0d36e897a91fa18b5affd0d1b33cf70. |