Arbitration and federal rights under collective agreements in 1967: Report of the Committee on Law and Legislation for 1967

Review of recent court decisions affecting collective bargaining agreements. Major subdivisions of report include individual employee rights under Section 301; actions cognizable under Section 301; determination of whether a contract exists; application of contracts to events predating or postdating the contract term; successor obligations; identity of the parties to the agreement; exhaustion of the grievance and arbitration procedure vis-?-vis achieving a judicial decision on the merits; suits to compel arbitration or to review awards; and the relationship of Section 301 to the Norris-LaGuardia Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and bankruptcy law. Expresses concern over court review of the arbitrator’s authority.