Central Management Services v. AFSCME

Docket No. 82525–Agenda 7–January 1998.

THE DEPARTMENT OF CENTRAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES et al. , Appellants, v. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, Appellee.

Filed April 16, 1998.

This appeal arose from an order of the circuit court of Morgan County dismissing as untimely a petition to vacate an arbitration award entered pursuant to a collective-bargaining agreement governed by the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act (5 ILCS 315/1 et seq. (West 1994)). The order was affirmed by the appellate court (284 Ill. App. 3d 963), and we granted leave to appeal (166 Ill. 2d R.…