Read the following excerpt from a US court opinion:
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pursuit of a court action to enforce the resulting agreement, without violating the Act.” Id. at 260. Several circuit cases have held that interest arbitration clauses survive the expiration of section 8(f) collective bargaining agreements, and the interest arbitration awards have been enforced in those cases. See Sheet Metal Workers Local 20 v. Baylor Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc., 877 F.2d 547, 556 (7th Cir.1989) (enforcing interest arbitration award even though employer refused to negotiate and the col lective bargaining agreement had expired), abrogated on other grounds by International Union of Operating Eng’rs, Local 150 v. Rabine, 161 F.3d 427, 430 (7th Cir.1998); Sheet Metal Workers’ Int’l Ass’n, Local 206 v. R.K. Burner Sheet Metal, Inc., 859 F.2d 758, 762 (9th Cir.1988) ; Sheet Metal Workers Local 57 Welfare Fund v.
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What is the most suitable continuation to the opinion? Your options are:
A. holding that collective bargaining agreements cannot compel the arbitration of statutory rights
B. holding that when plaintiff sought arbitration and neither the award nor the arbitration agreement mentioned interest the plaintiff was not entitled to preaward interest
C. holding that interest arbitration clauses survive the expiration of a collective bargaining agreement and rejecting the argument that contractual interest arbitration obligations are canceled by the absence of a statutory duty to bargain
D. holding that notwithstanding the expiration of the original labor contract the employer was bound by a renewal contract issued by the arbitration panel according to the interest arbitration clause
E. holding that the claim accrued after the employer denied a request for arbitration as untimely under the collective bargaining agreement
Reply with [A, B, C, D, E] only.