On June 4, the Connecticut Supreme Court released its decision upholding an arbitration award that favored the CCSU administrative faculty union over public policy protests lodged by the state. The University had fired Christopher Dukes, its director of student conduct at CCSU for off-duty acts that the school believed rendered Dukes unfit to hold his position on its faculty.

Dukes’ union, the Connecticut State University Organization of Administrative Faculty, AFSCME, council 4, Local 2836, AFL-CIO, grieved his discharge. The Dukes disciplinary question was taken to arbitration where the arbitrator found that the state had not met its burden of proving termination for cause, and Dukes was ordered to be reinstated with no penalty imposed.