Opinion
December 18, 1989
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Luciano, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The determination of the Supreme Court is proper. There is no real ambiguity as to the issue upon which arbitration is sought. Because the respondent was seeking enforcement of the entire agreement, it was unable to frame its request in terms of a specific provision of the agreement. The need to look at the whole agreement rather than a specific provision should not bar the alleged aggrieved party from the arbitration process. Furthermore, any ambiguity as to whether the employee who is the subject of the dispute, Camille Hahn, is covered by the collective bargaining agreement, is a matter of contract interpretation for the arbitrator to resolve (see, Matter of Salmon Riv. Cent. School Dist. [Salmon Riv. Teachers Assn.], 80 A.D.2d 939; Matter of South Colonie Cent. School Dist. v Longo, 43 N.Y.2d 136). Bracken, J.P., Brown, Kunzeman and Kooper, JJ., concur.