WASHINGTON COUNTY v. WERC

No. 2010AP582.

797 N.W.2d 902 (2011)

2011 WI App 49

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Petitioner-Appellant, v. WISCONSIN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS COMMISSION, Respondent-Respondent, Service Employees International Union Local 150, Interested Party-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed March 9, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

On behalf of the petitioner-appellant, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Nancy L. Pirkey and Joel S. Aziere of Buelow, Vetter, Olson, Buikema & Vliet, LLC, Waukesha.

On behalf of the respondent-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of David C. Rice , assistant attorney general, and J.B. Van Hollen , attorney general.

On behalf of the interested party-respondent, the cause was submitted on the brief of Marianne Goldstein Robbins and Sara J. Geenen of Previant, Goldberg, Uelmen, Gratz, Miller & Brueggeman, S.C., Milwaukee.

Before BROWN, C.J., NEUBAUER, P.J., and REILLY, J.


REILLY, J.

¶ 1 Since 1974 the collective bargaining agreements between Washington County and the Service Employees International Union Local 150 have given the County the right to lay off employees or contract out for goods and services. The issue in this appeal is whether the County had a unilateral duty during negotiations over the 2007-08 collective bargaining agreement to disclose to the Union that the County was seriously considering privatizing its laundry...

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