PERB: OPERATION, JURISDICTION, AUTHORITY; APPLICABILITY OF AND CONFLICTS WITH OTHER STATUTES – NLRA/LMRDA Precedent

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The federal presumption in favor of single facility bargaining units in the healthcare industry is incompatible with PERB’s preference for broad bargaining units in the public sector. (p. 27, fn. 24.) PERB seeks to avoid both unit fragmentation and proliferation to protect employee representation rights and to balance those rights with public employers’ interest in maintaining operational efficiency. (p. 27.) The final question in successorship analysis is therefore whether accreting the new employees to the successor’s existing units is appropriate. (Ibid.)