United Steelworkers of America v. Saint Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc.

The majority unjustifiably attempts to reduce the dissent to a concern about questions of timeliness, but the legal and factual issues addressed here cannot be so narrowly confined. Instead of improperly reframing the issues in an attempt to diminish the dissent, the majority should have meaningfully engaged the merits of the arguments presented by this opinion. The majority insists on imposing an obli*426gation to arbitrate disputes even where parties never agreed to submit a particular dispute to arbitration. The general presumption in favor of arbitration cannot be interpreted so broadly. In…