September 22, 2022
A Service Employees International Union local has defeated litigation claiming it violated anti-discrimination laws by taking an Albanian member's grievance to arbitration while tabling a Hispanic member's similar grievance, with a New York federal judge saying the union supported its argument that a non-discriminatory reason motivated its choice.
January 11, 2022
A Service Employees International Union local asked a New York federal judge to toss a bias suit claiming the union did not process an employee's workload grievance because she was Hispanic, saying the union had a nondiscriminatory reason for not pursuing arbitration.