Stillings v. Franklin Township Board of Trustees

Reece, Presiding Judge.

The Franklin Township Board of Trustees appeals from the common pleas court’s order requiring the board and the appellee, James L. Stillings, to submit to binding arbitration to resolve Stillings’s grievance over his disciplinary discharge. We reverse.

Stillings was employed by the Franklin Township Board of Trustees as a police officer. Stillings’s employment was subject to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that was effective from January 1, 1989 to July 1, 1991. On October 29 and November 8, 1990, Stillings was involved in a series of events which…