Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. v. Local Union No. 1, Bakery, Confectionery and Tobacco Workers' International Union

How courts have described this case

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• declining to look to the “law of the shop” when the dispositive contractual provision was unambiguous
• vacating award when arbitrator relied on outside policy in reinstating grievant despite unambiguous language in last-chance agreement that she would be terminated for any absence
• vacating arbitrator’s decision that second absence, excusable under company’s general attendance policy, did not violate LCA’s ban on more than one absence per month “for any reason”
• vacating arbitration award where arbitrator “failed to follow the clear requirements of the agreement”
• vacating arbitration award where arbitrator “failed to follow the clear requirements of the agreement”
• treating last chance agreement as if it were a collective bargaining agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).