Madison Teachers Inc. v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission

Appellants (MTI) appeal a judgment affirming a decision of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission denying them actual attorney fees and interest when seeking to enforce an arbitrator’s award. Because there is no basis for an award of actual attorney fees and because MTI is entitled to interest,1 *625we affirm in part and reverse in part. We remand this matter and direct the trial court to modify the commission’s order to award interest at the statutory rate from the date of the arbitrator’s award.

As part of a contractual grievance procedure, an arbitrator held in March, 1978, that the…