Electronics Corporation of America v. International Union of Electrical, Radio and MacHine Workers, Afl-Cio Local 272

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a summary judgment granted defendant union in a suit brought by management to vacate an arbitrator’s award culminating an employee discharge grievance proceeding. 1 The asserted cause for discharge was a long period, spanning several years, of falsifying time tickets. Although a three day suspension accompanied a third warning given the employee, three months before his discharge, the arbitrator based his award on an alleged lack of industrial due process, since he assumed that the employee was not suspended prior to discharge and the employee had…