Yuasa, Inc. v. International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Salaried, MacHine & Furniture Workers, Local 175

Vacated and remanded by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Judge KEELEY joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

The question presented in this case is whether an arbitrator exceeded the scope of his authority — defined both by a collective bargaining agreement and by the grievance presented to him- — when he entered an award in favor of employees at the lead-battery manufacturing plant of Yuasa, Inc., in Sumter, South Carolina. The arbitrator interpreted an incentive plan in the collective bargaining agreement through which the parties intended to…