Board of Trustees v. Segreganset Teachers Ass'n/Support Staff

I. Introduction

This case involves a dispute between a public employer and an employee association over a workers’ compensation and sick days provision in a collective bargaining agreement. The employer is the Board of Trustees of the Bristol County Agricultural High *683School. The employee association is the Segreganset Teachers Association/Support Staff (M.T.A./N.E.A.). In accordance with the agreement, the parties submitted the dispute to arbitration. The arbitrator ruled in favor of the employee association. The employer filed the present action seeking in part to vacate the arbitrator’s…