Maine State Employees Ass'n, SEIU Local 1989 v. Bureau of Employee Relations

ROBERTS, Justice.

The Maine State Employees Association (MSEA) appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Alexander, J.) denying MSEA’s motion to compel arbitration and granting the motion of the Bureau of Employee Relations to stay arbitration. MSEA asks us to declare unconstitutional P.L.1991, ch. 780, pt. V, § V-l, thereby rendering the issue of merit pay an arbitrable issue. We affirm the judgment.

The MSEA is a party to this suit in its capacity as the certified bargaining agent for employees working in various bargaining units of the executive branch of the…