Decision 0292E – Rio Hondo Community College District
LA-CE-1158; CO-141
Decision Date: March 8, 1983
Decision Type: PERB Decision
Perc Vol: 7
Perc Index: 14091
Decision Headnotes
401.04000 – Access – Union Right
District's threatened suspension of the statutorily guaranteed employee organization rights of dues deductions, reasonable access, and the right to represent members in grievances constitute separate violations of section 3543.5(a); p. 14.
401.11000 – Dues Deductions/Check Off/Agency Fee
District's threatened suspension of the statutorily guaranteed employee organization rights of dues deductions, reasonable access, and the right to represent members in grievances constitute separate violations of section 3543.5(a); p. 14.
409.01000 – Business Necessity
As District could have achieved same result by enforcing its existing policy, change in leave policy cannot be found to be reasonably necessary to avert a serious threat of interruption of educational services and is not justified by business necessity; p. 18.
301.01000 – In General
District has right to prepare for a strike by taking prudent measures including: hiring substitutes to replace strikers and suspending employment policy which interfered with such hiring; hiring security guards; authorizing appropriate legal action; and refusing to pay strikers for time not worked, including fringe benefits; pp. 10-11.
608.09000 – Strikes or Other Concerted Activity by Union
District has right to prepare for a strike by taking prudent measures including: hiring substitutes to replace strikers and suspending employment policy which interfered with such hiring; hiring security guards; authorizing appropriate legal action; and refusing to pay strikers for time not worked, including fringe benefits; pp. 10-11.
802.01000 – In General
As Association did not charge that District engaged in bad faith or surface bargaining at the table and no evidence supports a finding of causal connection between unfair practice charges and strike, Board found that one-day strike was not provoked by District's unlawful conduct; p. 29.
301.04000 – Unfair Practice
As Association did not charge that District engaged in bad faith or surface bargaining at the table and no evidence supports a finding of causal connection between unfair practice charges and strike, Board found that one-day strike was not provoked by District's unlawful conduct; p. 29.
301.02000 – Pre-Impasse
One-day pre-impasse strike motivated by economic considerations to gain concessions at bargaining table amounts to a refusal to bargain in good faith in violation of section 3543.6(c) and (a); p. 30.
804.03000 – Strike as Unlawful Pressure Tactic
One-day pre-impasse strike motivated by economic considerations to gain concessions at bargaining table amounts to a refusal to bargain in good faith in violation of section 3543.6(c) and (a); p. 30.
405.01000 – In General
Because a threat to punatively suspend statutory rights tends to undermine the status of an exclusive representative and has chilling effect on employee activity, the threat to suspend such rights in an emergency resolution constitutes a violation of EERA; pp. 13-14.
405.02000 – Express or Implied Threats
District's threatened suspension of the statutorily guaranteed employee organization rights of dues deductions, reasonable access, and the right to represent members in grievances constitute separate violations of section 3543.5(a); p. 14.
405.03000 – Promise of or Withholding of Benefits
District's threatened suspension of the statutorily guaranteed employee organization rights of dues deductions, reasonable access, and the right to represent members in grievances constitute separate violations of section 3543.5(a); p. 14.