Local 675 of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentice Plumbers & Pipe Fitters of the United States and Canada, Afl-Cio v. Honeywell, Inc.

This case requires the construction of terms in a multi-employer collective bargaining agreement between the Pneumatic Control Systems Council (PCSC) and the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada (UA). We shall refer to this agreement as the “national agreement.” The defendant, Honeywell, is a member of PCSC and the plaintiff, Local 675, is a local union of UA. The issue is whether the dispute between the parties in this case must be arbitrated in accordance with the arbitration procedures of the national agreement, as Honeywell contends. Local 675 contends, and the district court held, that arbitration pursuant to a “local agreement” between it and the Plumbing and Mechanical Contractors Association of Hawaii was proper. We disagree. We reach the same result as the Fifth Circuit did recently in United Association Local 725 v. Honeywell, Inc., 607 F.2d 659 (5th Cir. 1979). There the court concluded that arbitration must occur according to the procedures of the national agreement. Accordingly, we vacate the district court’s order enforcing the arbitration award made pursuant to the local…