Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union, Afl-Cio, Local 2-286 v. Amoco Oil Company (Salt Lake City Refinery)

This case was argued and submitted to the court on July 16, 1987. The arbitrator has had the same dispute under advisement since October 7, 1988, and no doubt awaits our decision.1 Notwithstanding, the court *710ignores the maxim that a dispute over the interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement must be resolved not by a court, but as the parties have agreed, by an arbitrator. E.g., Brotherhood of Locomotive Eng’rs v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas R.R. Co., 363 U.S. 528, 533, 80 S.Ct. 1326, 1329, 4 L.Ed.2d 1379 (1960). The court today does nothing less than render a decision on the merits of a…