SULLIVAN, LONG & HAGERTY, INC. v. LOCAL 559 LABORERS' INTERN. UNION OF NORTH AMERICA

No. 92-6365.

980 F.2d 1424 (1993)

SULLIVAN, LONG & HAGERTY, INC., a corporation, Plaintiff-Counterclaim-Defendant-Appellee, v. LOCAL 559 LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, a union, Defendant-Counter-claim-Plaintiff-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 13, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Samuel H. Heldman, Cooper, Mitch, Crawford, Kuykendall & Whatley, Birmingham, Ala., for appellant.

Sydney F. Frazier, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., for appellee.

Before BIRCH, Circuit Judge, JOHNSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and THOMAS, Senior District Judge.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This case requires us to decide whether the district court exceeded its authority by vacating the decision of a joint management-union committee requiring that an employee be reinstated. Because the decision of the contractually-designated committee was drawn from the essence of the collective bargaining agreement, we REVERSE the decision of the district court vacating the award.

I. BACKGROUND

This suit centers upon a labor...

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