Moreno Valley Unified School District v. Public Employment Relations Board
California Court of Appeal
142 Cal. App. 3d 191, 191 Cal. Rptr. 60 (1983)
- Written by Rose VanHofwegen, JD
Facts
The Moreno Valley Unified School District (the district) (defendant) and the Moreno Valley Educators Association (the association) began negotiating a new collective-bargaining agreement (CBA) five months before their first expired but were unable to reach agreement on most issues. Four days after the school year began, the parties mutually agreed they had reached an impasse and requested that California’s Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) (plaintiff) appoint a mediator. That same day or shortly afterward, the district unilaterally implemented the terms of its last best offer. Meanwhile, mediation proceeded in accordance with the procedures set by California’s Educational Employment Relations Act (EERA). The association nonetheless filed an unfair-labor-practice charge against the district. The PERB hearing officer concluded the district had committed a per se violation of EERA and several unfair labor practices, including refusing to negotiate in good faith. The PERB held that a unilateral change as to a negotiating subject after declaring impasse but before exhausting impasse procedures was a per se unfair practice absent a valid defense. The district appealed, arguing that (1) the totality-of-conduct test, not the per se test, should apply to unilateral changes, and (2) under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), unilateral changes were per se unfair only before reaching impasse.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Morris, J.)
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