CITY OF SAN JOSE v. OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL UNION NO. 3

No. S162647.

49 Cal.4th 597 (2010)

110 Cal. Rptr. 3d 718

232 P.3d 701

CITY OF SAN JOSE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. OPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL UNION NO. 3 et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

July 1, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Doyle, City Attorney, George Rios, Assistant City Attorney, Robert Fabela and Suzanne Hutchins, Deputy City Attorneys, for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Jennifer B. Henning for California State Association of Counties and League of California Cities as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Michael Aguirre, City Attorney (San Diego), Alan Hersh, Chief Deputy City Attorney; Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai, Jeffrey Sloan and Ivan Delventhal for City of San Diego as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Ann Miller Ravel, County Counsel (Santa Clara), Nancy J. Clark, Assistant County Counsel, and Lori E. Pegg, Lead Deputy County Counsel, for County of Santa Clara as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Leonard Carder, Arthur A. Krantz, Margot Rosenberg; Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld and Antonio Ruiz for Defendants and Respondents.

Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, Altshuler Berzon, Jonathan Weissglass and Linda Lye for California State Council of Service Employees as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Priscilla S. Winslow and Joseph R. Colton for California Teachers Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Michael R Clancy and Arnie R. Braafladt for California School Employees Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Robert Thompson, Robin Wesley, Carolyn Kubish and Tammy Samsel for Public Employment Relations Board as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Mary Maloney Roberts, William L. Kasley and Rebecca M. Ceniceros for Administrative Office of the Courts as Amicus Curiae.


OPINION

KENNARD, J.

In California, labor relations between most local public entities and their employees are governed by the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA) (Gov. Code, § 3500 et seq.), which recognizes the right of public employees to bargain collectively with their employers over wages and other terms of employment. The administrative agency authorized to adjudicate unfair labor practice charges under the MMBA is California's...

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