Cape Cod Gas Co. v. United Steelworkers of America, Local 13507

This is an application by the plaintiff (the company), filed in the Superior Court under G. L. c. 150C, § 11, to vacate an award made by the board of conciliation and arbitration (board) — see G. L. c. 23, § 7 — in an arbitration between the company and the defendant (union), parties to a collective bargaining agreement which provided for arbitration by the board as the final step of a grievance procedure.1

The facts out of which the grievance arose, as found by the board and substantially uncontroverted, are as follows: On December 29, 1972, one Ernest Currie, an employee of the company, was…