Court Opinion

ID: 9463974
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 23:21:59.088748+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:38:23.691269
License: Public Domain

FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge,
concurring.
I agree with the general principle that the employer is able to assert the defense of “exhaustion” only regarding those grievance procedures which he bargained for and were included in the collective bargaining agreement.
Because it is clear that the facts of this case do not fit the situation suggested by the employer’s argument discussed in Orphan, 466 F.2d at 801, and really dictum there as here, I prefer not to speculate as to whether there are any “limited circumstances” under which an employer might predicate a defense on the employee’s failure to exhaust intraunion remedies.