GREELEY POLICE UNION v. CITY COUNCIL OF GREELEY

No. 26992.

553 P.2d 790 (1976)

The GREELEY POLICE UNION, and Donald O'Leary, President of the Greeley Police Union, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The CITY COUNCIL OF GREELEY, Colorado, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied September 7, 1976.

Modification Denied September 13, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George T. Ashen, Denver, for plaintiffs-appellants.

William E. Shade, City Atty., Holland & Hart, Warren L. Tomlinson, James E. Hartley, Denver, for defendants-appellees.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Jean E. Dubofsky, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Joseph N. deRaismes, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Louis L. Kelley, John Kezer, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for Division of Labor, Dept. of Labor and Employment, State of Colorado, amicus curiae.

Leland M. Coulter, Richard Kaufman, Aurora, for City of Aurora, Colorado, a Municipal Corp., amicus curiae.

Susan K. Griffiths, Wheat Ridge, for Colorado Municipal League, amicus curiae.


DAY, Justice.

The principal issue in this appeal is the validity of a Greeley (the city) city charter amendment providing collective bargaining and compulsory, binding arbitration of all unresolved municipal-police union labor disputes arising from collective bargaining.

This action was originally commenced by plaintiffs-appellants Greeley Police Union (the union). The union sought to compel the city to submit to...

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