WATER PIPE EXTENSION v. City of Chicago

Defendant, the City of Chicago (the City) appeals from the judgment of the circuit court of Cook County in favor of plaintiff Water Pipe Extension, Bureau of Engineering Laborers’ Local 1092 (the Union), which vacated two arbitration awards. Those awards attempted to resolve a dispute between the City and the Union over the construction of certain provisions in a collective bargaining agreement entered into between them. The arbitrators found for the City but both awards were vacated and remanded for rearbitration by the trial court pursuant to the Union’s petition to vacate. On…