Alhambra Foundry Co., Ltd. (Alhambra), appellant herein, appeals from an order dismissing its complaint to vacate an arbitration award. We affirm.

This controversy commenced when Alhambra fired two of its employees for fighting in violation of its company rules. At the time of this incident Alhambra was a party to a collective bargaining agreement with General Warehousemen’s Union, Local 598 (Local 598) which contained a provision for arbitration of grievances. Local 598 filed grievances on behalf of the discharged workers in a timely manner seeking reinstatement and an order making them whole. At issue is the following provision of the company rules adopted pursuant to the collective bargaining process:

After a full hearing, the arbitrator ruled that the grievants were discharged in violation of the agreement and that the discharges were changed to disciplinary suspensions of thirty (30) days without pay. The grievants were ordered reinstated with full back pay and contractual allowances less outside earnings.

Alhambra filed a petition in District Court to vacate the arbitration award. Local 598 filed a motion to dismiss the complaint and application for an order confirming the award. The District Court granted all of the affirmative relief requested by Local 598.

The respective contentions of the parties as determined by the arbitrator are set forth in the following:

Thereupon, the arbitrator determined the language to be ambiguous:

An arbitrator is confined to the interpretation and application of the collective bargaining agreement and his award is legitimate only so long as it draws its essence from the agreement. United Steelworkers of America v. Enterprise Wheel & Car Corp., 363 U.S. 593, 597 , 80 S.Ct. 1358, 1361 , 4 L.Ed.2d 1424 (1960).

This circuit recently had occasion to consider the precise issue raised by Alhambra in Edna H. Pagel, Inc. v. Teamsters Local Union 595, 667 F.2d 1275, 1279 (9th Cir. 1982).

In that case, this court held:

Nor is the above pronouncement a rule of recent origin in this circuit. In 1969, a panel of this court in Holly Sugar Corp. v. Distillery, Rectifying, Wine & A.W.I.U., 9th Cir., 412 F.2d 899 , 903 stated the law of this circuit to be:

Alhambra based much of its argument on Arco Polymers, Inc. v. Local 8-74, Etc., 517 F.Supp. 681 (W.D.Pa.1981). After briefs were filed in this matter, the trial court decision in Arco Polymers, Inc. was reversed by the Third Circuit in a decision reported at 671 F.2d 752 . In the course of reversing the trial court, the Third Circuit panel observed that:

Arco-Polymers, Inc. v. Local 8-74, 671 F.2d 752, 755 (3rd Cir. 1982).

In short, the arbitrator’s award is neither arbitrary nor capricious.

The Local 598 requests the court to award sanctions either in the form of costs, double costs or attorneys fees, citing appropriate authority for the court’s jurisdiction to do so. Counsel for Local 598 quotes authority from other circuits and districts to substantiate their position. In essence, their argument resolves itself to the contention that the appeal was motivated by economic considerations, i.e., a substantial delay in satisfying the arbitrator’s award. Such, of course, is the inevitable result of any appeal from a money judgment or award. The court does not find Alhambra’s appeal here to be so frivolous as to warrant the imposition of sanctions. The court notes that the company rules were the result of negotiations between the company and Local 598. Both parties must bear responsibility for the ambiguity which the arbitrator demonstrated and was forced to resolve. Further, the remedy of the economic consequences of an appeal likewise must be solved in future contracts. Accordingly, we decline to impose any of the sanctions provided for in Rule 38 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.

. There is some suggestion in the record of the arbitration proceeding as to whether the arbitrator considered the altercation between the employees to constitute “fighting” within the meaning of the company rules. We hold, after a full consideration of the record, that the arbitrator decided the case upon his construction of the applicable sections of the collective bargaining agreement rather than upon a factual finding on the nature of the altercation.