YSU fights award in court

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University has made good on a plan to ask Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to overturn an arbitration ruling granting university classified employees additional personal-leave time.

The university, using outside legal counsel, filed a motion Monday asking the court to vacate the federal arbitration award that came out of a 2004 grievance case filed by the YSU Association of Classified Employees.

The university said in its motion that the arbitrator “exceeded his powers by ignoring a clear and unambiguous provision of the applicable collective bargaining agreement ... and adds requirements that do not exist.”