Arbitration panel offers final word on Metro firings

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The two Metrobus drivers who were fired after a deadly crash and an assault conviction were reinstated by a three-person arbitration panel under a collective bargaining agreement between Metro and its largest union.

Under the deal between Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 and the transit agency, fired union employees can challenge their terminations.

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