Iowa City Community School District v. Iowa City Education Ass'n

The “floodgates” spectre may subconsciously dictate the decision of an overworked court. Nonetheless, I respectfully dissent from the holding in each of the three divisions in the majority opinion.

I. The majority’s conclusion this issue was arbitrable ignores Iowa statutory law and ultimately is grounded, as is its affirmance of the arbitrator’s ruling, on an indiscriminate reliance on federal decisions that are of little applicability in view of the restrictive and unique provisions of Iowa’s Public Employment Relations Act.

Private sector employers are profit oriented and ordinarily are…