ConocoPhillips, Inc. v. Local 13-0555 United Steelworkers International Union

EDITH BROWN CLEMENT, Circuit Judge:

United Steelworkers International Union, Local 13-0555 (“USW”) appeals the district court’s vacatur of an arbitral award against ConocoPhillips, Inc. (“Cono-co”) involving dismissal of a refinery employee who failed a workplace drug test. We AFFIRM.

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

USW member Dave Buller was a refinery operator at a Conoco refinery in Lake Charles, Louisiana. On June 14, 2010, he was subject to a random drug test at work, and tested above the allowed threshold for hydrocodone. Conoco terminated him, pursuant to a company policy providing for termination…