Opinion ID: 720996
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Timeliness of the Grievance

Text: 21 Without regard to whether Troxler might be covered by the CBA, Patrick Media contends Local 89 failed to file a timely grievance. This may be correct, but whether it is or not is a matter for the arbitrator to decide.  '[W]hen time limitations and other procedural requirements are made an express part of the arbitration agreement, they become part of the bundle of issues the parties consented to have decided by an arbitrator's special interpretative ability.'  Goss Golden West Sheet Metal, Inc. v. Sheet Metal Workers Int'l Union, Local 104, 933 F.2d 759, 764 (9th Cir.1991) (quoting Retail Delivery Drivers, Local 588 v. Servomation Corp., 717 F.2d 475, 478 (9th Cir.1983)). 22 The CBA between Patrick Media and Local 89 establishes time limits for filing arbitration claims, but does not exclude issues of timeliness from issues to be determined by the arbitrator. Because the CBA does not contain explicit language excluding timeliness as an issue to be determined by the arbitrator, the issue of timeliness is arbitrable. Id.