Garlick Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Local 100, Service Employees International Union

OPINION AND FINDINGS

POLLACK, District Judge.

This is the third installment in an already protracted series of legal proceedings to answer the simple question of whether the discharge of four funeral home employees is subject to arbitration.

Plaintiff (hereafter the “Company” or “Garlick”), a corporation operating a number of funeral homes in the New York City area and a member of an employer bargaining unit known as the Metropolitan Funeral Directors Association (hereafter the “MFDA”), 1 seeks an order vacating an arbitrator’s award holding that the parties agreed in a retrospective writing to…