Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Arbitration in Alaska: Contracting Out

Anchorage arbitrator Robert Landau has denied IBEW Local 1547’s grievance alleging that Chugach Electric breached the parties’ CBA by contracting out work to Alaska Interstate Construction.  Landau held that CEA breached neither the CBA’s signatory clause (covering “new construction” or “electrical work”) nor its standards clause (covering work “normally and traditionally” performed by the unit).
Chugach Elect. […]

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Alaska Legal Miscellanea: Vexatious Litigants, and Alaska’s Judicial Selection Plan