News : September 2006
MTI Grievance Settled
After a full day of arbitration, and just prior to a second day of hearing, Attorney Linda Harfst, representing Madison Teachers Inc., settled a grievance on behalf of educational assistants in the Madison Metropolitan School whom the District had refused to consider as internal transfer candidates for vacant nurses' assistant positions. The District took this position despite the fact that these workers were current employees who possessed the required qualifications for the nurses' assistant positions and who were in the same bargaining unit. In the future, as a result of this settlement, educational assistants who possess nurses' assistant qualifications will have a full opportunity to compete for those jobs internally before the District can seek outside candidates. September 2006.
CWPB Attorneys Ranked Best Lawyers in America
Three Cullen Weston Pines & Bach attorneys were recently selected by their peers for Inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2007 (copyright 2006 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). Attorney Lee Cullen was selected in the fields of Communications Law, Energy Law, and Labor & Employment Law. Attorney Lester Pines was selected in the fields of White Collar Criminal Defense and Criminal Defense. Attorney Steve Bach was selected in the field of Family Law. September 2006.
Ruling: Calumet County violated Bargaining Agreement
In
a case tried by Attorney Nick
Fairweather, Commissioner Susan J. M. Bauman of the Wisconsin Employment
Relations Commission, ruled that Calumet County violated its Collective
Bargaining Agreement with the Calumet County Law Enforcement Employees
Unit and the Wisconsin Professional Police Association/LEER Division
when it unilaterally imposed a medical certification requirement on
County employees represented by the Union. The County was ordered to
make the employees whole for any losses incurred as a result of the
certification requirement. September 2006.
