Hanford Atomic Metal Trades Council, Afl-Cio, and C. L. Williams v. General Electric Company, a Corporation

Before us is an appeal from a final judgment in a case involving the validity and enforcement of an arbitration award rendered by an arbitration committee under a collective bargaining agreement between appellant, a “labor organization”, and appellee, and “employer”.

The District Court had jurisdiction under 29 U.S.C. § 185 . This court’s jurisdiction to review the judgment appealed from is under the provisions of 28 U.S.C. § 1291 .

The essential facts are not in dispute. The following statement of facts is taken mainly from the admitted facts contained in the pretrial conference order.

The appellant is the collective bargaining representative for certain production and maintenance employees of the appellee at the latter’s Hanford Atomic Products operation at Richland, Washington, where appellee operates a plutonium plant pursuant to a contract with the United States Government acting through the Atomic Energy Commission.

In April 1962, a dispute arose concerning the meaning and interpretation of the collective bargaining agreement. Said dispute arose after appellee, as a result of a nuclear criticality incident, furloughed for periods of up to one week approximately one-half…