
    In the Matter of the Arbitration between Sheila Trudeau, as President of the South Colonie Teachers’ Association, Respondent, and South Colonie Central School District, Appellant. Board of Education of the South Colonie Central School District et al., Appellants, v Thomas O’Rourke, as Former President of the South Colonie Teachers’ Association, et al., Respondents.
    Argued October 12, 1988;
    decided November 17, 1988
    
      APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
    
      Paul J. Laudato for appellants.
    
      Gerard John De Wolf and Bernard F. Ashe for respondents.
   OPINION OF THE COURT

Order affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the opinion by Justice Howard A. Levine at the Appellate Division (135 AD2d 150; see also, Matter of Town of Haverstraw [Rockland County Patromen’s Benevolent Assn.], 65 NY2d 677; Rochester City School Dist. v Rochester Teachers’ Assn., 41 NY2d 578).

Concur: Chief Judge Wachtler and Judges Simons, Kaye, Alexander, Titone, Hancock, Jr., and Bellacosa.  