SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF PITTSFIELD v. UNITED EDUCATORS OF PITTSFIELD


438 Mass. 753 (2003)

SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF PITTSFIELD v. UNITED EDUCATORS OF PITTSFIELD.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Berkshire.

February 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel R. Wojcik for the plaintiff.

Ira Fader for the defendant.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Michael J. Long for Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents.

Ann Clarke, Judith Neumann, Jeffrey W. Jacobsen, Mary T. Sullivan, & Donald J. Siegel for Massachusetts AFL-CIO & others.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


MARSHALL, C.J.

We are asked to determine whether, in the wake of the Education Reform Act of 1993, St. 1993, c. 71 (Reform Act), the involuntary transfer of a special education teacher from one school to another is a matter that is properly arbitrable under a collective bargaining agreement between a school committee and a union representing the teacher.1 The plaintiff, the school committee of...

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