Ross v. Webster Teachers Ass'nRoss v. Webster Teachers Ass'n
— Order unanimously affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: Appellant, the Superintendent of Webster Central School District, has appealed from an order denying his motion for an оrder staying arbitration and granting respondent’s, Webster Teachers Association, motion to compel arbitration. The dispute concerns the method of computing a salary adjustment factor under a collective bargaining agreemеnt to which the appellant school district and respondent teachers association are parties. The district argues that the subject matter does not fall within the scope of the contractual arbitration clause. It also сontends that the demand for arbitration was not timely made. Whether a dispute betwеen an employer and an employee in the public sector may be submitted to arbitration is a question to be determined by the courts. In so doing the court must proceed with a two-step analysis. First, arbitration of the subject matter of the dispute must be permissible under the Taylor Law. Once it has been determined that the