Court Opinion

ID: 9765394
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:01:46.966835+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:09.632034
License: Public Domain

McDERMOTT, Justice,
dissenting.
The Board offered to restore the status quo by reinstating the Blue Cross/Blue Shield coverage if the teachers returned to work. The teachers wanted Blue Cross/Blue Shield reinstated before they returned to work. The impasse continued for two months of the most educable period of the lives of the children held hostage by the puerile actions of both parties. Nothing but loss is reflected by this litigation. Now we make the teachers whole at the expense of the unemployment compensation fund because they did not get what they wanted the day they wanted it, notwithstanding that they had an enforceable decision of the arbitrator and an enforceable offer of the Board the minute they returned. I dissent and would leave them where they put themselves, with the hope that the children they are charged to teach show more maturity in their lives and business.