One issue that is very important to both union and management deals with employee discipline. As Muchinsky (2018) points out, grievance arbitration is a critical issue in union/management relations. Listed below is an issue often specified in a union/management contract pertaining to discipline. Policy in the labor contract: Any employee who is late three times within a three-month period will be suspended for one day without pay. The second time this occurs in a three-month period, the employee will be suspended for one week. The third time it occurs, the employee will be terminated. Situation: Juanita Ramirez has shown up late for work three days in a row. Her supervisor wants to suspend her for one day as specified in the contract. Juanita has contacted the union steward to represent her to grieve this penalty. She knows that she has been late 3 times in a row. However, all three times she has been late by only 5 minutes. Further, Juanita takes the bus to work each day. She takes the first bus the city runs (6:45 a.m.), but the bus doesn't get her to the company until 7:03 a.m. Thus, by the time she punches in she is 5