4th Circuit Affirms District Court Ruling on South Carolina CWA/AT&T Mobility Case
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by U.S. District Court in Anderson, South Carolina, that two former AT&T Mobility employees failed to meet the requirements of a hybrid case, a decision issued Thursday said. The employees…
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sued AT&T Mobility and the Communications Workers of America alleging AT&T breached their collective bargaining agreement in terminating them and CWA failed in its duty of fair representation by failing to inform them of a settlement offer for that termination, the decision said. The former employees settled with AT&T Mobility and the district court granted CWA's motion for a summary judgment. The 4th Circuit affirmed because it couldn't form the basis of a hybrid lawsuit, it said.