Abuse of Discretion Jurisdiction.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Brock Industrial Services, LLC, v. Laborers' International Union of North America Construction, et al.

Case No.: 17-2597; 17-2688

Officials: BAUER, SYKES, and BARRETT, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Abuse of Discretion Jurisdiction

Brock Industrial Services, LLC, is an Illinois-based provider of industrial services, including scaffolding, painting, insulation, and shoring. In January 2016 it entered into a labor agreement with Local 100 of the Laborers' International Union ("the Laborers Union" or "the Laborers"). The agreement requires arbitration of grievances and establishes a bipartite arbitration procedure for resolving most disputes. But work-jurisdiction disputesdisputes over whether the Laborers or another union is entitled to perform workare instead subject to a tripartite arbitration procedure involving the company and the contending unions.

Brock filed suit under section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. 185, seeking to vacate the Subcommittee's decision. The Laborers Union responded with a request to enforce the decision. After a flurry of motions on both sides, the district judge determined that the Subcommittee had authority to resolve the dispute and issued an order...

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