Court Opinion

ID: 9581152
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:12:06.557054+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:44.687813
License: Public Domain

PETERSON, Justice
(concurring).
The parties have a collective bargaining agreement, one term of which provides that “out-of-class activities” shall be assigned “in accordance with past practice” and another term of which provides that a disagreement as to the interpretation or application of a term of the collective bargaining agreement shall be subject to a grievance procedure, including binding arbitration. The trial court undertook to make a determination as to the existence and effect of any past practice. That determination plainly is for an arbitrator, not the court, to make. It is as simple as that.
I concur in reversing the trial court and remanding with instructions to order the parties to proceed to arbitration.