Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the complaint is dismissed.
It is settled that when "an employer and a union enter into a collective bargaining agreement that creates a grievance procedure, an employee subject to the agreement may not sue the employer directly for breach of that agreement but must proceed, through the union, in accordance with the contract" (Matter of Board of Educ. v Ambach,
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