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- Title: State Alaska v. Public Safety Employees
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 05, 1990
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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The state appeals from a decision of the superior court ordering it to comply with the terms of an interest arbitration award assigning certain state job classifications to collective bargaining agreement pay ranges. In the proceedings before the arbitrator, the parties argued the question whether the assignment of positions to pay ranges is a mandatory subject of bargaining. The arbitrator concluded that it is. When the state declined to implement the arbitrators award, the Public Safety Employees Association ("PSEA") sought enforcement of the award, and the superior court ordered the state to comply. The state appealed. The state now argues that the arbitrator exceeded his authority and committed gross error in reaching his decision. Because the parties agreed to submit the question of the arbitrators authority to the arbitrator, we review the arbitrators decision that he had authority to determine the ultimate question with the great deference ordinarily given to arbitrators decisions. We do not believe that the arbitrator committed gross error, and therefore uphold his decision on arbitrability. Because the arbitrators decision on the ultimate question is reasonable, we affirm the decision of the superior court.