Case: Labor Arbitration/Discharge (Arb.)

Triple Canopy, Inc. didn’t have just cause to terminate the grievant, a protective services officer, for insubordination when he refused to lower a barrier for personnel entering a campus housing federal government entities and for refusing an order to perform assigned duties outlined in a security manual and company policy, Arbitrator Alvin R. Wilson, Jr. held. The evidence revealed that the grievant failed to operate the barrier three times during his shift, and that a supervising lieutenant ordered him to lower the barrier. However, the grievant testified that he told the lieutenant that there weren’t vehicles at the checkpoint upon ...