Court: CBA Limits Availability of Grievance Procedures to Coaches

The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has ruled that coaches in that state are not entitled to the same grievance procedures, under a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), as other education professionals, such as “nurses, guidance counselors, and librarians.”   In so ruling, the justices denied the plaintiffs’ bid for a declaratory judgment, which would have spelled out their entitlement “to binding arbitration of adverse actions taken against them.”   The plaintiffs in the cas