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THERE IS A REASONABLE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE GRIEVANCE AND THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT (CBA); THE CITY’S PETITION TO PERMANENTLY STAY ARBITRATION SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN GRANTED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined that the city-employer’s motion to permanently stay arbitration should not have been granted:

In determining whether a grievance is arbitrable, a court must “first ask whether there is any statutory, constitutional or public policy prohibition against arbitration of the grievance,” and if there is no prohibition against arbitration, the court must “then examine the CBA [collective bargaining agreement] to determine if the parties have agreed to arbitrate the dispute at issue” … . …

Where, as here, the relevant arbitration provision of the CBA is broad, providing for arbitration of any grievance “involving the interpretation or application of any provision of this Agreement,” a court “should merely determine whether there is a reasonable relationship between the subject matter of the dispute and the general subject matter of the CBA” … . “If there is none, the issue, as a matter of law, is not arbitrable. If there is, the court should rule the matter arbitrable, and the arbitrator will then make a more exacting interpretation of the precise scope of the substantive provisions of the CBA, and whether the subject matter of the dispute fits within them” … . …

According to Local 628, the City, by offering a paramedic training course to its firefighters, violated article 33 of the CBA, which contains various provisions concerning the EMS Program, including a provision stating that the “EMS Program shall mean the level of services provided as of the date of this Agreement.” Contrary to the City’s contention, a reasonable relationship exists between Local 628’s grievance and the general subject matter of the CBA … . “[T]he question of the scope of the substantive provisions of the CBA is a matter of contract interpretation and application reserved for the arbitrator” … . Matter of City of Yonkers v Yonkers Fire Fighters, Local 628, IAFF, AFL-CIO, 2019 NY Slip Op 07776, Second Dept 10-30-19

 

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