SOCIAL WORKERS' UNION v. ALAMEDA COUNTY WELFARE DEPT.

Docket No. S.F. 23015.

11 Cal.3d 382 (1974)

521 P.2d 453

113 Cal. Rptr. 461

SOCIAL WORKERS' UNION, LOCAL 535, SEIU, AFL-CIO et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. ALAMEDA COUNTY WELFARE DEPARTMENT et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 30, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Levy & Van Bourg, Victor J. Van Bourg and Stewart Weinberg for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Richard J. Moore, County Counsel, and Douglas Hickling, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

In this case we must determine whether a public employee may be disciplined for declining to attend, without his union representative, a meeting with his supervisor concerning the employee's alleged misuse of a county car at a union rally. The Alameda County Welfare Department (Department) ordered three-day suspensions for seven employees after the employees declined...

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