Beck v. United Food and Commercial Workers Union

How courts have described this case

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• affirming district court’s conclusion that employer “had violated the collective 9 bargaining agreement in terminating Beck without just cause”
• discussing requirements for a breach of duty of fair representation claim by a union member
• “We 28 agree with our sister circuits that whether two employees are similarly situated is ordinarily 1 a question of fact.”
• district court erred by mechanically imposing 21 a strict “same supervisor” requirement; “whether two employees are similarly situated is ordinarily a 22 question of fact”
• union’s failure to file a timely 11 grievance, after agreeing to do so, was arbitrary
• “[C]ourts have consistently refused to accept unions’ claims that their actions involved any judgment or strategy where the union simply failed to perform some procedural act.”

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