COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA v. WESTERN ELEC.

No. 83-3236.

751 F.2d 203 (1984)

COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA and its Local 5090, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 26, 1984.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 8, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Eisenstein, Katz, Friedman, Schur & Eagle, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellee.

Charles C. Jackson, Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

Before WOOD, Circuit Judge, SWYGERT, Senior Circuit Judge, and GRANT, Senior District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 8, 1985.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

This appeal raises yet again, but in a different context, the question of the proper role for a court to play in deciding whether a dispute between an employee and employer is arbitrable under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement.

I.

Defendant-Appellant, Western Electric (the "Company"), appeals from a district court order compelling it to...

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