Ira Beavers v. United Paperworkers International Union, Local 1741

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

This is an action by Ira Beavers against his former union, the United Paperworkers International Union, Local 1741 (“UPIU”), alleging a breach of UPIU’s duty of fair representation because an arbitrator dismissed Beavers’s wrongful discharge claim as untimely. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of UPIU, and Bea vers appeals. Concluding that UPIU’s summary judgment motion does not resolve a disputed issue of fact — whether UPIU processed Beavers’s grievance in an arbitrary manner — we reverse.

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In February 1992, UPIU and Georgia-Pacific Corporation entered…