PERB: OPERATION, JURISDICTION, AUTHORITY; APPLICABILITY OF AND CONFLICTS WITH OTHER STATUTES – In General

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The MMBA expansively defines a covered “public agency” to include “every governmental subdivision, every district, every public and quasi-public corporation, every public agency and public service corporation and every town, city, county, city and county and municipal corporation, whether incorporated or not and whether chartered or not.” (MMBA, § 3501(c).) PERB interprets “governmental subdivisions” covered under MMBA section 3501(c) to correspond to “political subdivisions” excluded from the NLRA under 29 United States Code section 152(2). (National Labor Relations Bd. v. Natural Gas Utility Dist. of Hawkins County, Tenn. (1971) 402 U.S. 600; Central Contra Costa Transit Authority (2012) PERB Decision No. 2263-M, p. 25; El Camino Hospital District (2009) PERB Decision No. 2033-M, pp. 17-18.) (pp. 25-26.)