Milwaukee Police Ass'n v. City of Milwaukee

Pursuant to Rule 809.10(3), Stats., these two appeals have been consolidated. Both involve the question of whether the termination of a probationary employe is arbitrable under the police collective bargaining agreement. We hold that it is not.

In the first case, Ronald J. Nord (Nord) was terminated after slightly more than a month as a probationary police officer when the department’s medical panel found him to be physically unfit. This was then brought to arbitration over the objection of the city of Milwaukee (city) and Chief of Police Harold Breier, who challenged the arbitrator’s…