Court Opinion

ID: 9742261
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:09:27.690114+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:30.231972
License: Public Domain

Mr. JUSTICE WELCH, specially concurring: The defendant’s counterclaim states that “a pension agreement was executed under date of October 1, 1957, by and between defendant and Local Union 1095, United Steel Workers of America, AFL-CIO,” and that “said pension agreement has been in full force and effect continuously from 1957 until the present.” The agreement provided by its own terms that it “shall remain in effect until midnight, September 30, 1958.” Nothing in the pleadings demonstrates that the agreement was renegotiated or otherwise could be said to have been entered into after the effective date of the Uniform Arbitration Act. Since the defendant did not show that the Act applied to the agreement, and since, before the enactment of the Act, agreements to arbitrate future disputes were against public policy (see White Eagle Laundry Co. v. Slatoek), that counterclaim was properly dismissed. I concur with the majority opinion insofar as it is based on this failure to plead facts sufficient to show that the Uniform Arbitration Act applies to the pension agreement.