The Lynchburg Foundry Company, Division of Woodward Iron Company v. The United Steelworkers of America, Local 2556

SOBELOFF, Circuit Judge:

The union, Local 2556 of the United Steelworkers, appeals from a District Court order. which vacated an arbitration award requiring the reinstatement without back pay of an employee who had been discharged by the Lynchburg Foundry Company

On July 24, 1967, the company discharged Fred Jones, an employee with seventeen years’ seniority, for inaccurately keeping records in the course of his duty as an “iron reader.” 1 Jones, without denying his misconduct, filed a grievance against the company claiming that he had been “unjustly dealt with.” The grievance was processed…