Legal Opinion
Sweet Home Central School District of Amherst v. Sweet Home Service Employees Ass'n
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 10, 1987Published
1Opinion of the Court
— Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Special Term properly denied the application of the Sweet Home Central School District to stay arbitration of a grievance filed by the Sweet Home Service Employees Association challenging the dismissal of a school bus driver. Although a district board of education may retain the power to discipline and terminate employees, it may voluntarily bargain and agree to procedures and programs governing the exercise of that power (see, Matter of Candor Cent. School Dist. [Candor Teachers Assn.], 42 NY2d 266, 271-272; Matter of Cohoes City School…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- In re the Arbitration between the Acting Superintendent of Schools of Liverpool Central School District v. United Liverpool Faculty Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1977
- Cohoes City School District v. Cohoes Teachers Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
- Board of Education v. BarniNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
- In re the Arbitration between Candor Central School District & Candor Teachers Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1977
- Board of Education of City School District v. Lockport Education Ass'nAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1978