State, Office of Employee Rel. v. Communications Workers

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

POLLOCK, J.

This appeal involves a dispute between the Communications Workers of America, AFL-CIO (CWA) and the State of New Jersey, Office of Employee Relations (OER or State) over the^ interpretation of Article V, Section J of the parties’ 1992-95 Collective Negotiations Agreement, which concerns the termi nation of employment of unclassified employees. The parties submitted their dispute to an arbitrator who decided, among other things, that when the State gave no reason for terminating certain unclassified employees, the employees could submit to…