Salary Policy Employee Panel Office and Professional Employees International Union, Afl-Cio, Clc v. Tennessee Valley Authority

MOORE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant, Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”), appeals from an order of the district court granting partial summary judgment to plaintiffs-appellees, Salary Policy Employee Panel (the “Panel”) and Office and Professional Employees International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (“OPEIU”) (together the “appellees”), in an action brought by appellees to compel TVA to submit a grievance to arbitration. The underlying dispute, the merits of which are not before this court, involves whether employees within a new job classification recently created by TVA belong in a bargaining…