In re the Arbitration between Samuel Adler, Inc. & Local 584

Respondent union appeals from an order of Special Term vacating an arbitration award. The award was vacated on the ground that the arbitrator’s finding of improper discharge by petitioner employer of its employee, a driver on a milk route, was inconsistent with the direction in the award that the employee, upon reinstatement, forfeit two weeks’ wages.

The question submitted to the arbitrator was the narrow one: “ Was the discharge * * * proper, under the Contract? ” The arbitrator found that the provisions in the contract forbidding unauthorized persons on vehicles and forbidding use of a…