In re the Arbitration between Taylor & Health Care Employees, RWDSU, AFL-CIO

Petitioner moves to confirm an arbitration award. Confirmation is opposed upon the ground that only the partnership was named in the notice to arbitrate; that the individual partners comprising the partnership were never named nor served in the arbitration proceeding, and that *794while such an award may ordinarily be satisfied out of the partnership property, it may not be enforced as against the assets of the individual partners.

Petitioner, a trades union, entered into a collective agreement with the individual partners doing business as the Ross Nursing Home (Ross). Under the provisions of…