State of Iowa v. Justin Lee Borchers

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• finding breach of duty of fair representation where union failed to pursue timely a meritorious grievance
• union will not be liable for “mere errors of judgment in processing grievances”
• union’s failure to file a grievance on time was arbitrary
• “[W]e limit our holding that union negligence may breach the duty of fair representation to cases in which the individual interest at stake is strong and the union’s failure to perform a ministerial act completely extinguishes the employee’s right to pursue his claim.”
• union breach of duty harmless only if employee grievance was frivolous
• “[U]nion negligence may breach the duty of fair representation [in] cases in which the individual interest at stake is strong and the union’s failure to perform a ministerial act completely extinguishes the employee’s right to pursue his claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).