Labor Relations Division of Construction Industries of Massachusetts, Inc. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 379

TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

The circumscribed role of federal courts reviewing arbitration awards in labor contract disputes is now well established. As the Supreme Court found in United Papeworkers Int’l Union v. Misco, Inc., 484 U.S. 29, 36-45, 108 S.Ct. 364, 369-74, 98 L.Ed.2d 286 (1987), courts must resist the temptation to substitute their own judgment about the most reasonable meaning of a labor contract for that of the arbitrator and avoid the tendency to strike down even an arbitrator’s erroneous interpretation of such contracts. Instead, courts must confine themselves to determining…