United States Second Circuit

Strong presumption in favor of arbitrability, among other labor law policies, will preclude giving an employer the right to terminate a collective bargaining agreement solely on account of a union's breach of a no-strike clause; mandatory terms of arbitration award upheld.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/24/2002
• Published 04/25/2002

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before:  FEINBERG, CARDAMONE, and F.I. PARKER , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark S. Renner, San Jose, California (Wylie, McBride, Jesinger, Platten & Renner, San Jose, California;  Patrick J. Riley, Sheet Metal Workers' International Association, Washington, D.C., of counsel), filed a letter brief for Sheet Metal Workers' International Association as Amicus Curiae., Thomas J. Grooms, Syracuse, New York, (Paul Limmiatis, Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, Syracuse, New York, of counsel), filed a letter brief for Mechanical Contractors Association of Connecticut, Inc., and Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors National Association as Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey S. Dubin, Law Office of Jeffrey S. Dubin, Huntington, New York, filed a letter brief for Defendant-Appellant., Christopher T. Handman, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P., Washington, D.C. (Robert B. Mitchell, Pullman & Comley, LLC, Stamford, Connecticut, of counsel), filed a letter brief for Plaintiff-Appellee.