Local P-40, United Food & Commercial Workers International Union v. Patrick Cudahy, Inc.

DECISION AND ORDER

REYNOLDS, Chief Judge.

This is an action to vacate the award of an arbitrator in a labor dispute. The court’s jurisdiction derives from 29 U.S.C. § 185. The plaintiff union alleges that the arbitrator erred procedurally by refusing to permit a discharged employee to attend an on-site inspection of the area where the incident giving rise to the dispute occurred. Plaintiff also alleges that the arbitrator made erroneous rulings of law, and was the victim of the defendant company’s fraudulent devices. Defendant and plaintiff have both moved for summary judgment. Additionally,…