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AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION v. U.S. POSTAL SERV.

Nos. 86-5611, 86-5612.

823 F.2d 466 (1987)

AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION, AFL-CIO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 4, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph H. Kaplan, Kaplan, Sicking & Bloom, P.A., Miami, Fla., Charlene Miller Carres, Tallahassee, Fla., for plaintiff-appellant.

Leon B. Kellner, U.S. Atty., Wendy A. Jacobus and Linda Collins Hert, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., Kevin Rachel, U.S. Postal Service, Office of Labor Law, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee.

Before GODBOLD and HILL, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge:

This case requires us to undertake the sometimes hazardous task of choosing an appropriate limitations period to govern a federal statutory action that provides none. The plaintiff, American Postal Workers Union ("the Union"), brought suit in two cases to vacate arbitration awards rendered pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement with the United States Postal Service ("the Postal Service"). The district court dismissed the complaints...

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