State v. Public Safety Employees Ass'n

OPINION

MOORE, Justice.

The state appeals from a decision of the superior court ordering it to comply with the terms of an interest arbitration award assigning certain state job classifications to collective bargaining agreement pay ranges. In the proceedings before the arbitrator, the parties argued the question whether the assignment of positions to pay ranges is a mandatory subject of bargaining. The arbitrator concluded that it is. When the state declined to implement the arbitrator’s award, the Public Safety Employees Association (“PSEA”) sought enforcement of the award, and the superior…