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The Dangerous Knife

The Northwest Electronics Corporation has a rule against the possession of dangerous knives on company property, and over the years it has disciplined (generally by dis-charging) more than a few of its approximately 5,000 employees for having violated it. In all such cases until now, however, the knife was visible (more than once because it was being brandished). Recently, plant security guard Ralph Von Strasser, suspecting the possession of a knife by a female worker, unilaterally entered and searched her locker and her purse and discovered that his suspicions were in fact warranted since the dangerous knife was in the purse. As the woman prepared to leave the premises by the front gate at quit-ting time that afternoon, she was escorted to the security office and asked to empty her purse. She was not informed why this request was being made. Refusing to honor it, she took her purse and went out the gate. She was informed when she showed up for work on the following morning that she had been discharged for "refusing to obey the legitimate order of a plant security officer." The case wound up in arbitration.

Had you been the arbitrator here, would you have sustained the discharge, and why or why not?