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Representatives of Local 26--the hotel, restaurant, institutional employees, and bartenders union, concluded their presentation in favor of Valdemar Arruda, a University cook fired last year after he was convicted of arson--arguing that the 11-year employee had met the necessary conditions to be reinstated...
...arbitration last spring, the arbitrator ruled that the University should rehire Arruda, an alcoholic, if he attended Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) for six months and brought back attendance slips. Arruda, however, never gave food service officials these slips...
University officials have said that because Arruda failed to turn in the slips they have no evidence that he participated in the program and should not be forced to reinstate...
Union officials, however, say that because Arruda is Portugese and has difficulty with English, he may not have undertood that he was required to turn in the forms. "The man did what he had to do. He rehabilitated himself." Domenic Bozzotto, the president of Local 26, said yesterday...
...original arbitration of the case, an arbitrator ruled that Arruda was an alcoholic and that the University was obligated to rehire him if he attended Alcoholics Anonymous for six months and presented food-service officials with weekly attendance slips to prove his participation in the program...