Court Opinion

ID: 9469461
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 02:41:15.735715+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:41:24.076091
License: Public Domain

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in Judge Will’s fair and careful analysis of the issue, but not without considerable hesitation. As we are judges, not negotiators for the parties, I fear that we are coming perilously close to rewriting this particular bargaining agreement the way we think it ought to be in order to render its application fair and balanced. But, considering the favor that arbitration enjoys, and the principle of resolving doubts in favor of arbitration, I do concur. It does seem to me, however, that since bargaining agreements are nothing new, the parties should be better able to more clearly express the understanding they themselves reached at the table.