Opinion ID: 500031
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: March 4th Engine Services Employees

Text: 122 The Newton engine service employees claim that the seniority they received under the implementing agreements of February 22, 1982, was inadequate under the terms of the March 4th Agreement. They, like the Newton ground service appellants, allege that those implementing agreements were hopelessly biased because former Rock Island employees had no role in securing them and because they were negotiated by those with interests adverse to their own. Because of this fundamental impropriety, we find the February 22, 1982 implementing agreements to be in contravention of the March 4th Agreement and, hence, invalid. 123 As in the case of the ground service employees, we remand these cases to the district court with directions to enter an order requiring the parties to renegotiate these agreements in accordance with the requirements of the March 4th Agreement. We direct that these agreements be negotiated in strict accordance with section IV(B)(4) of this opinion, with representatives of the Rock Island employees participating in an active and significant manner. Moreover, should the parties fail to reach agreement, subsequent arbitration of this matter shall also be governed by section IV(B)(4) of this opinion.