[This opinion has been published in Ohio Official Reports at 82 Ohio St.3d 1214.]

HOCKING TECHNICAL COLLEGE, APPELLEE, v. HOCKING TECHNICAL COLLEGE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, OEA/NEA, ET AL., APPELLANTS. [Cite as Hocking Technical College v. Hocking Technical College Edn. Assn., OEA/NEA, 1998-Ohio-269.]

Appeals dismissed as improvidently allowed. (No. 97-936—Submitted April 7, 1998—Decided June 3, 1998.)

APPEALS from the Court of Appeals for Athens County, No. 96 CA 1750. __________________ Arter & Hadden LLP, Gary S. Batke and Robert R. Dunn, for appellee.

Cloppert, Portman, Sauter, Latanick & Foley, Mark A. Foley and Susan Hayest Kozlowski, for appellant Hocking Technical College Education Association, OEA/NEA.

Leonard S. Sigall and Steven D. Stone, for appellant Joan Bartow. __________________ {¶ 1} The appeals are dismissed, sua sponte, as having been improvidently allowed.

MOYER, C.J., DOUGLAS, RESNICK, F.E. SWEENEY, PFEIFER and LUNDBERG STRATTON, JJ., concur.

COOK, J., dissents. __________________ COOK, J., dissenting. {¶ 2} I would affirm and adopt the opinion of the court of appeals. __________________