Arbitration Between Local One Amalgamated Lithographers v. Stearns & Beale, Inc.

MAHONEY, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents the question of what is required to bind a non-signatory company to a union contract signed by another company. In an arbitration proceeding between Stearns & Beale, Inc. (“S & B”) and Local One, Amalgamated Lithographers of America (“Local One”)1 the arbitrator decided that a non-signatory company which shared a common parent corporation with S & B, AAA International Printing Company (“AAA”), was bound by the S & B contract because the two companies were a “single employer.” The arbitrator accordingly directed (in effect) that neither S & B nor AAA…