Common use of IDENTICAL GRIEVANCES Clause in Contracts

IDENTICAL GRIEVANCES. In the case of an identical grievance involving a group of employees one employee’s grievance may be selected by the Union for processing. All decisions for that grievance will be binding on the other grievance(s). The Parties agree that for the purposes of this section identical grievances are ones arising from a common set of circumstances which adversely affect the grievants in the same manner where all of the witnesses would be testifying to the same or substantiallysimilar facts. The term “substantially similar” means facts which are sufficiently like so that a reasonable person would conclude that application of the same rules to the facts in each grievance would result in the same conclusions with regard tothe outcome of those grievances.

IDENTICAL GRIEVANCES. In the case of an identical grievance involving a group of employees one employee’s grievance may be selected by the Union for processing. All decisions for that grievance will be binding on the other grievance(s). The Parties agree that for the purposes of this section identical grievances are ones arising from a common set of circumstances which adversely affect the grievants in the same manner where all of the witnesses would be testifying to the same or substantiallysimilar substantially similar facts. The term “"substantially similar” " means facts which are sufficiently like alike so that a reasonable person would conclude that application of the same rules to the facts in each grievance would result in the same conclusions with regard tothe to the outcome of those grievances.