City of Everett v. Teamsters, Local 380

This is an appeal by the city of Everett from a judgment entered in the Superior Court confirming an arbitration award. The dispute concerned the city’s assignment of William Pippy, rather than Lawrence Kelliher, to the vacant position of laborer in the city’s park department. After the assignment the Teamsters, Local 380, acting pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement, filed a grievance against the city which resulted in arbitration of the matter. The issues submitted by the parties to the arbitrator were two-fold: (1) whether the city had violated the collective bargaining agreement…