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FEDERAL EMPLOYEES v. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

No. 97-1184.

526 U.S. 86 (1999)

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 1309 v. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ET AL.

United States Supreme Court.

Decided March 3, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory O'Duden argued the cause for petitioner in No. 97-1184. With him on the briefs was Barbara A. Atkin. David M. Smith argued the cause for petitioner in No. 97— 1243. With him on the brief was James F. Blandford.

Irving L. Gornstein argued the cause for the Department of the Interior in both cases. On the brief were Solicitor General Waxman, Assistant Attorney General Hunger, Deputy Solicitor General Underwood, Jonathan E. Nuechterlein, William Kanter, Robert M. Loeb, and Sushma Soni.†

Breyer, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, and Ginsburg, JJ., joined. O'Connor, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Rehnquist, C. J., joined, and in which Scalia and Thomas, JJ., joined as to Part I, p. 101.

Justice Breyer, delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute requires federal agencies and the unions that represent their employees to "meet and negotiate in good faith for the purposes of arriving at a collective bargaining agreement." 5 U. S. C. § 7114(a)(4). We here consider whether that duty to bargain extends to a clause proposed by a union that would bind the parties...

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