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· 10/20/2005

United Parcel Service, Inc. v. Unión De Tronquistas De Puerto Rico, Local 901

Citations

  • 426 F.3d 470
  • 178 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2321
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 22526
  • 2005 WL 2673679

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that a postexpiration dispute over vacation benefits arose under the agreement because vacation time “accrues during the term of the agreement under which it is earned”
  • “Having concluded that the employees’ right to vacation time accrued under the earlier agreement and, consequently, that the underlying dispute arises under the agreement, we must assign substantive resolution of the dispute to the arbitrator.... ”
  • “Vacation time strikes us as the classic example of a benefit that—barring explicit provision to the contrary—accrues during the term of the agreement under which it is earned.”
  • “We find no evidence in these provisions—clear or otherwise—that the parties agreed to depart from the presumption that matters arising under a particular collective bargaining agreement will remain arbitrable even after the contract has terminated.”

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Judges: Torruella, Coffin, Lipez

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