Parsons v. Blue Ridge-Winkler Textiles

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TROUTMAN, District Judge.

The federal labor policy favoring arbitration as the mode which the parties to a collective bargaining agreement have selected to resolve disputes renders “narrow in the extreme” the permissible scope of judicial review of an arbitration award,1 which will be sustained as long as it “draws its essence” from the collective bargaining agreement.2 That is, whenever the arbitrator’s conclusion can “in any rational way be derived from the agreement”, a reviewing court will not disturb the award3 unless the arbitrator manifestly disregards the agreement…