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Arbitrating a contract grievance

Arbitrating a contract grievance
Greenburgh 11 UFSD v Local 1532, 266 AD2d 213

The collective bargaining agreement between Local 1532 and Greenburgh 11 provided that after a teacher was late nine times for less than 20 minutes per lateness, the district would have a meeting with the employee and a union representative. A second meeting was to be held after the tenth such lateness.

Without holding any ?lateness meetings? with the teachers or the Local, the district preferred Section 3020-a disciplinary charges against 15 teachers, alleging they were late on several occasions. The Local filed a contract grievance and demanded arbitration.

When Supreme Court refused to stay the contract grievance arbitration, the district appealed. The Appellate Division affirmed the lower court?s ruling, stating that ?[t]he question of the scope of the substantive provisions of the contract is itself a matter of contract interpretation and application, and hence it must be deemed a matter for resolution by the arbitrator.?
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Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).