United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951, Afl-Cio and Clc v. Phillip Mulder Charles Buck and Leon Gibbons

DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether, in a “service fee” dispute between a labor union and non-union employees, a federal district court has subject matter jurisdiction to confirm the decision of an arbitrator selected pursuant to an internal union procedure to which the non-union employees did not agree to be bound. The action arose when the plaintiff-appellant, a labor union, filed an action seeking judicial confirmation of the amount of its rebate to the defendants-appellees, non-union employees who objected to the amount of the “service fee” that the…