Local Union 8181, United Mine Workers, District 28 v. Westmoreland Coal Co.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GLEN M. WILLIAMS, District Judge.

The plaintiff, United Mine Workers of America, Local Union 8181 (Union), seeks to have this court vacate the July 25, 1984 labor arbitration award of Arbitrator Theodore Dyke (Dyke) claiming that the decision does not “draw its essence” from the collective bargaining agreement between the Union and the defendant, Westmore-land Coal Company (Westmoreland). Westmoreland asserts that the applicable statute of limitations bars the action, that the decision does in fact “draw its essence” from the collective bargaining agreement and that in any…