Legal Opinion
Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. v. United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 791
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 6, 2003No. 02-2032PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 791 (“the Union”) pursued like grievances under three separate contracts for three Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc. regions and then brought them to American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) arbitration, asking for a single consolidated proceeding. Shaw’s objected to the proposed consolidation and brought a federal action for a declaratory judgment that, as a matter of law, a party is prohibited from unilaterally consolidating grievances under multiple contracts into a single arbitration. Shaw’s characterization of the question,…
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