Blount County Education Ass'n v. Blount County Board of Education

OPINION

D. MICHAEL SWINEY, J„

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which HERSCHEL P. FRANKS, J., and WILLIAM H. INMAN, Sr. J„ joined.

This lawsuit arises from the unsuccessful attempt of the Blount County Education Association (“Plaintiff’) and the Blount County Board of Education (“Board”) to negotiate a new memorandum of agreement prior to the expiration of the existing agreement on July 1,1999. Plaintiff claims certain subjects it sought to bargain over were mandatory subjects of bargaining and that the Board committed an unfair labor practice when it refused to bargain in good faith and…