Perma-Line Corporation of America v. Sign Pictorial and Display Union, Local 230, International Brotherhood Ofpainters and Allied Trades, Afl-Cio

OAKES, Circuit Judge:

Perma-Line Corporation of America seeks to overturn an arbitration award reinstating, without back pay, a union shop steward discharged for fighting on the job. The arbitrator, asked to determine whether the shop steward had been discharged for cause, held that he could not be discharged at all, under a provision in the collective bargaining agreement requiring union consent to layoff or discharge of stewards. This appeal is from a summary judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, John M. Cannella, Judge, confirming the…