East Chicago Teachers Union, Local Union 511 v. Board of Trustees of School City of East Chicago
Decision Date | 12 October 1972 |
Docket Number | No. 3--872A53,3--872A53 |
Citation | 287 N.E.2d 891,153 Ind.App. 463 |
Parties | , 81 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2586, 69 Lab.Cas. P 52,910 EAST CHICAGO TEACHERS UNION, LOCAL NO. 511, American Federation of Teachers by its president, Samuel Weinstein and Samuel Weinstein, individually, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF the SCHOOL CITY OF EAST CHICAGO, Indiana and School City of East Chicago, Indiana, Defendants-Appellees. |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
Andrew J. Leahy, Chicago, Ill., Hilbert L. Bradley, Gary, for plaintiffs-appellants.
Stepanovich & Stevens, East Chicago (Nick Stepanovich, East Chicago, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.
The Plaintiffs-Appellants filed a complaint to enforce a complaint against the Appellees in two legal paragraphs. The first was a complaint to compel arbitration under an agreement between the plaintiff, East Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 511, American Federation of Teachers and the Appellees, Board of Trustees of the School City of East Chicago, Indiana, and School City of East Chicago, Indiana, covering the calendar year 1970. Paragraph II is a complaint for the enforcement of a compulsory arbitration agreement which was entered into between the union and the school board. The Appellees filed a motion to dismiss both paragraphs of Appellants' complaint under Trial Rule 12(B)(6), IC 1971, 34--5--1--1, Rule 12(B)(6) contending that neither paragraph of complaint stated a claim upon which belief could be granted. The trial court, after hearing argument, sustained the Appellees' motion to dismiss. A motion to correct errors was filed and overruled and this appeal has resulted.
Although involving a different procedural framework the substantive question which this court decided in Gary Teachers Union, Local No. 4, American Federation of Teachers, v. School City of Gary et al, Ind.App., 284 N.E.2d 108 (1972), is the same substantive issue which underlies the controversy between the parties in this instant case. In the Gary Teachers case at 284 N.E.2d page 114 we held:
We believe that the same reasoning applies to the kind of an agreement which is involved in this instant case.
In Chicago Division of Illinois Education Association, et al v. Board of Education, et al, 76 Ill.App.2d 456, 222 N.E.2d 243 (1966), which we cited as authority in the Gary case, the Illinois Appellate Court held that it was permissible for a Board of Education to enter into collective bargaining agreements with public school teacher employees without express legislative authority and that such an agreement was not contrary to public policy. Some of the reasoning to this conclusion by the Appellate Court of Illinois is revealing and pertinent. At 222 N.E.2d page 246 the court said:
'Initially, we consider whether the trial court was correct in striking Broman's complaint. This raises the basic question of whether the Board may bargain collectively with an exclusive employee representative. Broman contends:
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The court, at page 251, concluded as follows:
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