Decision 3051M – City and County of San Francisco
SF-CE-2071-M
Decision Date: August 20, 2026
Decision Type: PERB Decision (Non-Precedential)
Description: Charging Party Service Employees International Union Local 1021 filed a charge alleging that Respondent City and County of San Francisco violated the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA) by refusing to provide the union with necessary and relevant information and by changing terms and conditions of employment without affording the union adequate notice and opportunity to bargain. After a hearing, the administrative law judge (ALJ) found that Respondent failed to meet and negotiate in good faith with SEIU when it unilaterally changed the policy for ambulance diversion at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Emergency Department and by refusing to provide SEIU with information related to the change. Both parties filed exceptions. SEIU asked the Board to uphold the violations found by the ALJ but to order spoken notice of the City’s violations as an additional remedy, and to make additional remedial findings that the ALJ declined to determine in the proposed decision. The City asked the Board to reverse the proposed decision and find that it did not violate the MMBA.
Disposition: In a non-precedential decision, the Board affirmed the ALJ’s determinations and clarified the remedy. The Board agreed with the ALJ that PERB’s standard remedies were sufficient to address the violations and did not order a spoken notice.
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