West Hartford Education Assn., Inc. v. DeCourcy

How courts have described this case

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• noting that grievance procedure provides “an amicable and efficient means of resolving any differences within a contract previously acceptable to and executed by the parties”
• relying on interpretations by National Labor Relations Board because Connecticut statutes dealing with labor relations closely patterned after National Labor Relations Act
• private sector view of wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment is not easily superimposed on the field of education
• court stated that if the submission of certain subjects to binding arbitration is unlawful, the topic is beyond the scope of negotiability
• whether extracurricular activities should take place was management decision; effect of those activities on teacher assignments mandatory subject of negotiation
• ‘‘[t]he significance of calling something a ‘condition of employment’ is that it then becomes a mandatory subject of collective bargaining’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).