Alvey, Incorporated v. Teamsters Local Union No. 688

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Alvey, Incorporated, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment refusing to vacate a labor arbitration award in favor of Dewey Bounds, a discharged Alvey employee. Concluding that the arbitrator’s award does not draw its essence from the collective bargaining agreement in one important respect, we reverse.

On October 10, 1994, a Florissant, Missouri, narcotics detective received an anonymous tip that Bounds was “dealing or having drugs” at Alvey’s nearby plant. The tipster said that Bounds carried a vial of cocaine to and from work each day in a black satchel.…