READ Arbitrator Jeffrey Jacobs' Full Decision

• Key quotes from the decision HERE

April 8, 2025: MFPE Press Release, Arbitrator Determines DOJ Wrongfully Terminated MHP Trooper, Union President

August 16, 2024: Daily Montanan, Attorney General Micromanaging Montana Highway Patrol Employees Say

July 12, 2024: KTVH, Labor Complaint Over Firing of Montana Highway Patrol Trooper to Continue

July 11, 2024: Daily Montanan, Montana Highway Patrol likely committed unfair labor practice in firing trooper

July 10, 2024: MFPE Press Release, Merit Found, Fired Troopers' Union President's Unfair Labor Practice Charge Moves Forward and BOPA's Finding of Probable Merit

May 31, 2024: KTVH, Fired MHP Trooper Claims Retaliation After Providing Survey Summary to Union

May 31, 2024: NBC Montana, Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Claims She Was Unjustly Fired

May 30, 2024: Lee Newspapers, Union: DOJ Fired Trooper for Sharing Work Conditions Survey

May 29, 2024: Daily Montanan, Complaint: DOJ's Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Fired in Retaliation

May 24, 2024: MFPE Press Release & Documentation, Montana Highway Patrol Withholds Survey & Terminates Decorated Trooper, Union President and ULP Documentation

March 29, 2024: Daily Montana, Montana Highway Patrol Survey Shows Lack of Trust in Leadership

In March 2024, senior leadership at the Department of Justice & Montana Highway Patrol began sanitizing a publicly-funded workplace climate survey that reflected poorly on their management. A summary of the survey was published by the Daily Montanan. Senior leadership retaliated by firing Alicia Bragg, a decorated trooper and local union president. Trooper Bragg had communicated about the survey with union staff in an effort to improve her fellow troopers' working conditions. She did not share it with press. Now, a year later, an arbitrator has found DOJ wrongfully terminated Bragg. The decision sends a clear message that Montana workers' freedoms and rights at work do not take a back seat to bad optics.