In re Laconia School District

Brock, C.J.,

retired, specially assigned under RSA 490:3. The petitioner, the Laconia School District (district), appeals a decision of the public employee labor relations board (PELRB) that the PELRB lacked jurisdiction to review an arbitrator’s award. We affirm.

In 2000, the district reassigned a middle school teacher, Robert Gunther, to an elementary school teaching position. Believing that the reassignment was disciplinary in nature based on the teacher’s union activity, the respondent, the Laconia Education Association (association), filed a grievance alleging two violations of the…