Originally Posted by jack72
If someone, or school, is breaking a contract, you do not need a union to fight it, which means in the end you go to arbitration. You hire an attorney and try to work it out, or you can still agree to arbitration.
In the end if Ollie signed a contract, that allows UConn an easy out, shame on him, but this was his first big job, so he was anxious to sign, and had little leverage. No union is going to save him from the facts.
Part of the problem when you have a union and an arbitrator rules against you, there is no legal recourse and no appeal.
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That sounds good Jack. But isn't the reality of negotiations involving public employee unions...certainly not in CT.
Ollies' union has already taught the UConn administration a lesson that they should have been well aware of. They can't just fire a coach. Firing a union member has to follow a specific process as outlined in the union contract....not the coach's contract. Ollie has been suspended...with pay...pending a work-through of the matter according to union rules. That is going to take some time...a lot longer than it will take UConn to hire a new coach.
UConn will soon have two men's BB coaches....the new hire and Ollie. Ollie will no longer coach UConn basketball, of course. And if the dispute between Ollie and UConn gets as far as arbitration, as you suggest might happen, then Ollie is golden. In CT the deck is stacked. The arbitrator always favors the employee...always.
UConn will be smart enough not to let it get that far....especially if any rule(s) Ollie violated are trivial. According to Ollie's contract the law may be on UConn's side. But, the violations had better turn out to be significant. If they are not the public employee's union will eat UConn's lunch. UConn will wind up paying Ollie a lot of money while enduring an embarrassing tsunami of bad publicity.
