SCHOOL COMMITTEE, ETC. v. PAWTUCKET, ETC.

Nos. 76-333-Appeal, 76-395-Appeal.

390 A.2d 386 (1978)

SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF the CITY OF PAWTUCKET v. PAWTUCKET TEACHERS ALLIANCE AFT LOCAL 930 et al. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF the TOWN OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN v. SOUTH KINGSTOWN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

Supreme Court of Rhode Island.

August 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Higgins, Cavanagh & Cooney, Joseph V. Cavanagh, Providence, for School Committee of the City of Pawtucket.

David J. Kehoe, Providence, for School Committee of the Town of South Kingstown.

Abedon, Stanzler, Biener, Skolnik & Lipsey, Richard A. Skolnik, Lynette Labinger, Providence, for Pawtucket Teachers Alliance AFT Local 930 and Martin M. Schwartz.

Natale L. Urso, Barry N. Capalbo, Westerly, for South Kingstown Teachers Ass'n.


OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

These two appeals have been consolidated because they both pose the question of whether a trial justice has the jurisdiction to stay arbitration of a grievance between a teachers association and a school committee where certain procedural requirements for the proper filing of a demand for arbitration, as set out in the collective bargaining agreement between the parties, were not followed. Both cases involve appeals by...

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