Michigan City Area Schools v. Siddall

GARRARD, Judge.

This is an action for injunctive relief in a labor dispute involving non-teaching employees of the Michigan City Area Schools (the school).

It appears that during the late summer of 1979 the school board adopted a voluntary policy for collective bargaining with its non-teaching employees (hereafter referred to as the classified employees).1 In August a number of these employees: bus drivers, custodians, cooks and maintenance people, *466refused to perform their work assignments. The central issue in dispute was the school’s refusal to recognize and negotiate with the individual…