ITT WORLD COMMUNICATIONS, INC. v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS

No. 189, Docket 33674.

422 F.2d 77 (1970)

ITT WORLD COMMUNICATIONS, INC., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA, AFL-CIO, and Local No. 1174, Communications Workers of America AFL-CIO, and Local No. 1172, Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 19, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred Giardino, New York City (Lorenz, Finn & Giardino, Charles M. Mattingly, Jr., New York City, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

H. Howard Ostrin, New York City (Cooper, Ostrin, DeVarco & Ackerman, Ronald J. Brooks, Philip D. Tobin, David Kreitzman, New York City, Kane & Koons, Charles V. Koons, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and MEDINA and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


FEINBERG, Circuit Judge:

This case poses the familiar problem of construing the arbitration provisions of a labor agreement. Simply stated, the issue is whether the parties agreed to arbitrate claims of contract violation brought by an employer as well as those brought by a union. The employer is ITT World Communications Inc.; the unions are Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO and two of its locals, hereafter referred to as the "Union." ITT appeals from an...

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