In re the Arbitration between Alamac Restaurant, Inc. & Rubin

This is an application to stay an arbitration commenced under a general arbitration clause in a collective bargaining agreement between an association representing hotel operators and the respondent, which is a council of trade unions representing workers in the local hotel industry. The petitioner operates a restaurant in a hotel which is a member of the association and, as such a concessionaire, has signed the basic collective bargaining agreement. It employs eleven members of the council unions.

The association and the council have entered into industry-wide agreements since 1938. The…