DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 16 OF THE INT’L UNION OF PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES, GLAZIERS, ARCHITECTURAL METAL AND GLASS WORKERS, LOCAL 1621 v. B&B GLASS, INC
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today released an opinion in DISTRICT COUNCIL NO. 16 OF THE INT’L UNION OF PAINTERS & ALLIED TRADES, GLAZIERS, ARCHITECTURAL METAL AND GLASS WORKERS, LOCAL 1621 v. B&B GLASS, INC, No. 05-16258, a federal appeal. The panel consisted of Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Circuit Judge, William C. Canby, Jr. and M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judges.
SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge:
This construction industry labor litigation involves the interplay between the use of standard “work preservation” and “out-of-area” clauses in collective bargaining agreements and the strong federal policy favoring arbitration. The clauses at issue in this litigation appear in a collective bargaining agreement signed by a Texas corporation, but a different company in California performed the challenged work. The California . . .