School Committee of Danvers v. Tyman

The defendants appeal from an order, under G. L. c. 150C, § 2 (6), granting a stay of arbitration concerning certain grievances asserted on behalf of the defendant Tyman, a nontenured teacher in the Danvers school system. An appeal from such an order is authorized by G. L. c. 150C, § 16 (2). See School Comm. of Agawam v. Agawam Educ. Ass’n, 371 Mass. 845, 846 (1977). We conclude that arbitration should not have been stayed and that an order should be entered under G. L. c. 150C, § 2 (b), directing the parties to proceed to arbitration.

The basic circumstances are not in dispute. The Dan-vers…