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192317P.pdf 07/10/2020 Exide Technologies v. IBEW, Local No. 700
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-2317
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Ft. Smith
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Melloy and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Labor law. The arbitrator's decision that Exide violated the
parties' Collective Bargaining Agreement by unilaterally changing FMLA
leave administrators did not exceed the arbitrator's authority and was a
reasonable interpretation of the relevant CBA provisions; the district
court correctly determined it did not have jurisdiction over Exide's claim
that the arbitrator's decision that unilaterally changing FMLA leave
administrators was a material, substantial and significant change in the
employees' terms and conditions of employment in violation of Section 8 of
the NLRA; such a claim is an unfair-labor-practice claim which Congress
has empowered the NLRB to decide in the first instance; nor does this
court have original jurisdiction to decide if Exide violated the NLRA.