School Committee of Pawtucket v. Pawtucket Teachers Alliance AFT Local 930

These two appeals have been consolidated because they both pose the question of whether a trial justice has the jurisdiction to stay arbitration of a grievance between a teachers association and a school committee where certain procedural requirements for the proper filing of a demand for arbitration, as set out in the collective bargaining agreement between the parties, were not followed. Both cases involve appeals by the defendants, the teachers associations for the town of South Kingstown and the city of Pawtucket, from permanent stays of arbitration granted to the plaintiffs, the school…