California Court of Appeal

County requirement that union trying to displace an incumbent union as collective bargaining representative submit a petition with signatures of at least 50 percent of the employees in the bargaining unit, and obtain these signatures within 30 days prior to the date the petition is submitted violates Government Code section 3507 of the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/20/2001
• Published 06/20/2001

Judges

• McINTYRE, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Van Bourg, Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld, James Rutkowski, Los Angeles, Altshuler, Berzon, Nussbaum, Rubin & Demain, Stephen P. Berzon, Jonathan Weisglass, San Francisco, and Victor Madison Ortiz-de-Montellano for Petitioners., Rockwell & Meyer, Richard Rockwell and Paula Meyer, Tustin, for Intervenor., Olins, Foerster & Hayes and Dennis J. Hayes for San Bernardino Public Employees Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Intervenor Orange County Employees Association.


• For Appellees:
  
• Wiley Price & Radulovich, Joseph Wiley and Suzanne Price, Almeda, for Respondent.,  Laurence M. Watson, County Counsel, and Wanda S. Florence, Deputy County Counsel for County of Orange as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent Orange County Superior Court.