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

OPINION

SUTTON, Circuit Judge.

General Drivers, Warehousemen and Helpers, Local Union 89 v. Moog Louisville Warehouse, 852 F.2d 871 (6th Cir.1988), held that the application of an express time-limitations bar in a collective bargaining agreement prohibiting the arbitration of untimely grievance appeals presents a substantive question of arbitrability for a court to decide, as opposed to a procedural question for an arbitrator to decide. Consistent with that decision, the district court in this case granted the company’s motion to preclude arbitration as a matter of law based on the late filing…