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· 5/2/2001

Woonsocket Teachers' Guild, Local 951 v. Woonsocket School Committee

Citations

  • 770 A.2d 834
  • 2001 R.I. LEXIS 122
  • 2001 WL 474048

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that disputes over workload increases that interfere with Board of Regents Regulations 300.1, 300.2(b)(1)(i) and 300.24(12
  • stating that “like subject matter jurisdiction, the question of arbitrability may be raised by the parties at any time, or by this Court sua sponte”
  • stating that “applicable state * *' * law trumps contrary contract provisions” (quoting State v. Rhode Island Alliance of Social Services Employees, Local 580, 747 A.2d 465, 469 (R.I. 2000)
  • vacating the arbitrator's award when a union grieved a school principal's order that a nurse administer medication to a student in a special education program where by law, special education children had to be provided with school health services
  • the court held a grievance alleging a school principal lacked authority to order a school nurse to dispense medication to special needs students was not arbitrable because school health services were a statutory obligation

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Judges: Williams, Lederberg, Bourcier, Flanders, Goldberg

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