INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS v. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD Part-I
Facing a budget crisis, the City of Richmond decided to lay off 18 of its firefighter employees. The firefighters' union tried to negotiate with the city to avert the layoffs, but the city refused to bargain over its layoff decision. The union turned to the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), the state agency charged with enforcing state labor laws affecting local government employees. PERB would not issue a complaint, however, because it concluded that the city's refusal to bargain had not violated state law. The union then brought an action in superior court, but that court agreed with PERB that no unfair labor practice had occurred. On the union's appeal, the Court of Appeal affirmed the superior court's judgment.
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