Please help me to understand something...

@Dr-GO said in Please help me to understand something...:

However, due process is not usually a legal requirement for a private corporation.

For the most part, if you (the management) ended up grumbling about losing a case to an employee(s) who flagrantly disregarded work responsibilities, it's probably because the arbitrator concluded that due process was denied. The workers at NYP are members of the IATSE (The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees). The IATSE is the largest union in the entertainment industry. They represent roughly 112,000 workers in the entertainment industry, roughly 16,000 of whom are in Canada. The members are stagehands, wardrobe attendants, makeup artists and hair stylists, motion picture and television production technicians, broadcast technicians, scenic artists, designers, animators, audio visual technicians and a host of others. These workers are organized into local unions by craft and geography. There are over 380 local unions in the United States and 40 in Canada (Google).
This is a big union! Rest assured that "how" an employee is to be disciplined will be progressive in nature and spelled out in the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). One needs to remember that without a CBA, management controls all things as it pertains to wages, hours and conditions of employment pending it does not violate State or Federal law. Management "HATES" collective bargaining agreements (Union Contracts) because the CBA requires management to "share" the power of the work floor. With that said, it's often that management either purposely ignored the Progressive Discipline provision of the contract or didn't read it. Chances are, if you are a betting person, bet on these young men were denied due process.

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Ok. Thanks for the responses. I'm done with this thread.