Postville Community School District v. Billmeyer

NEUMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a district court ruling that vacated an arbitrator’s decision favoring a school employee in a discharge action. The dispute is over the fundamental question of whether the discharge is even subject to arbitration. Because we believe the broad coverage of the parties’ collective bargaining agreement permitted the employee to grieve his termination, we reverse.

Appellant Jackie Billmeyer worked as a night janitor for the Postville Community School District. In September 1993 he was criminally charged for acts involving two junior high school girls who…