FIRE FIGHTERS UNION v. CITY OF VALLEJO

Docket No. S.F. 23098.

12 Cal.3d 608 (1974)

526 P.2d 971

116 Cal. Rptr. 507

FIRE FIGHTERS UNION, LOCAL 1186, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS, AFL-CIO, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CITY OF VALLEJO et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 2, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Davis, Cowell & Bowe, Alan C. Davis and Roland C. Davis for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Charles P. Scully, Donald C. Carroll, Bodle, Fogel, Julber, Reinhardt & Rothschild, George E. Bodle, Daniel Fogel, Stephen Reinhardt, Loren R. Rothschild and Lester G. Ostrov as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

John M. Powers, City Attorney, St. Sure, Moore, Hoyt & Sizoo and Ralph B. Hoyt for Defendants and Appellants.

Burt Pines, City Attorney (Los Angeles) Lawrence L. Hoffman, Assistant City Attorney, John B. Rice and Bert Glennon, Jr., Deputy City Attorneys, John H. Larson, County Counsel (Los Angeles) Daniel C. Cassidy, Acting Chief Deputy County Counsel, Martin E. Weekes, Deputy County Counsel, Richard S. Whitmore and Gillio & Whitmore as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

In this case of first impression we must delineate the function of the court in interpreting a provision for arbitration in a city charter affecting public employees. Specifically we are asked, prior to the arbitration proceeding itself, to reconcile clauses which substantively overlap: a provision that grants city employees the right to bargain on "wages, hours and working conditions" but withholds that right...

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