Libertyville Education Ass'n v. Board of Education

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE RECHENMACHER

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case concerns the validity of a five-year collective bargaining agreement between a local board of education and a teachers’ union, and a provision of the agreement calling for the automatic adjustment of the teachers’ base salaries during the four.final years of the agreement, the amount of such adjustments to be determined by reference to a certain “Consumer Price Index” published by the United States Department of Labor. The teachers’ union, known as the “Libertyville Education Association” (hereafter the…