Ameritech Corp. v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 21

SYKES, Circuit Judge.

These appeals stem from a drawn-out labor dispute between Ameritech and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 21, involving three arbitra-tions centering on what may fairly be described as the same issue. The first and third awards favored Ameritech; the second favored the Union. The question now is whether the third arbitration award trumps the second.

The third arbitration was the product of a settlement agreement resolving the parties’ first two appeals in this court. Amer-itech had appealed the district court’s order enforcing the second…