Communications Workers of America, Afl-Cio v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Company

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

As a matter of procedure this case is an appeal from the district court’s denial of appellant’s Application for Confirmation and Enforcement of an Arbitration Award. This Court, however, must actually only determine whether the district court’s interpretation of a wholly separate document, the so-called Local Overtime Agreement and its duration clause, was correct.

Plaintiff-appellant, the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO (“the Union”), and defendant-appellee, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (“the Company”), share a long history of collective bargaining.…