Hawai‘i State Teachers Association v. University Laboratory School.

Opinion of the Court by

NAKAYAMA, J.

This case concerns a dispute over whether agreements between the Petitioner/Union-Appellant Hawai'i State Teachers Association (HSTA)1 and the Respondent/Employer-Ap-*428pellee University Laboratory School (ULS)2 mandate arbitration of a grievance filed by the HSTA against the ULS. The HSTA’s grievance alleged that the ULS refused to implement a step placement chart for a salary schedule agreed to in a supplemental agreement negotiated by the HSTA and the School Board. The ULS responded that the step placement chart the HSTA sought to enforce had never been…