Port Washington Union Free School District v. Port Washington Teachers Ass'n

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

We have said previously that, under the Taylor Law (Civil Service Law, § 204, subd 1), the scope of permissible collective bargaining between boards of education and teachers associations concerning terms and conditions of employment is broad, "limited by plain and clear, rather than express, prohibitions in the statute or decisional law” (Syracuse Teachers Assn. v Board of Educ., 35 NY2d 743, 744). Equally well established is the restriction upon the freedom to arbitrate imposed by public policy, whether rooted in statute or decisional law or otherwise. (Matter…