Exxon Shipping Company v. Exxon Seamen's Union

OPINION OF THE COURT

SLOVITER, Chief Judge.

Exxon Shipping Company appeals from a district court order which declined to vacate and instead confirmed and enforced an arbitration award reinstating an Exxon employee who had been discharged for refusing to submit to a drug test. We will affirm.

I

The collective bargaining agreement (“Agreement”) between Exxon Shipping Company and Exxon Seamen’s Union expired on August 31, 1987. After eight months of negotiating for a successor agreement, Exxon, in a letter sent on March 29, 1988 to all oceangoing employees, declared an impasse and advised the Union…