Union workers fired for smoking weed & drinking on job get reinstated

The only reason they were reinstated was because 1:they had binding arbitration and 2:the company chose to honor the finding of the arbitrator.

Collective bargaining alone - with no binding arbitration, would not have achieved this result. I know a state worker who received a DUI on his own time on the weekend (not "on call"). He was fired immediately and certainly did not get reinstated.

People often confuse collective bargaining with binding arbitration. Collective bargaining without binding arbitration is nearly completely worthless and a waste of time.

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