Pocket Guide to the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (1st ed., 2003)

At last, by popular demand, a Pocket Guide covering California’s fourth major public employment relations statute, passed in 1978. The Guide provides an up-to-date and easy-to-use description of the rights and obligations conferred by the act that governs collective bargaining at the University of California and the California State University systems.

Included is the full text of the act, plus an easy-to-read explanation of how the law works, its history, and how it fits in with other labor relations laws. The Guide explains the enforcement procedures of the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), analyzes all important PERB decisions and court cases (arranged by topic) that interpret and apply the law, and contains a useful index, glossary of terms, and table of cases.

Portable, readable, and affordable, Pocket Guide to the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act is valuable as both a current source of information and a training tool — for administrators, human resource and labor relations personnel, faculty, and union representatives and their members.

Contents

1. Introduction (Page 1)
   1. History of California Public Sector Labor Laws (Page 2)
      1. George Brown Act (Page 2)
      2. Winton Act (Page 3)
      3. Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA) (Page 3)
      4. Educational Employer-Employee Relations Act (EERA) (Page 4)
      5. Dills Act (Page 4)
   2. HEERA: Summary and Commentary (Page 4)
      1. History of the Act (Page 4)
      2. Coverage of HEERA (Page 5)
      3. Role of faculty (Page 6)
      4. Student employees (Page 6)
      5. Medical housestaff: Interns and residents (Page 7)
      6. Graduate student instructors and researchers (Page 8)
   3. Representation Under HEERA (Page 10)
      1. Academic senate and unit determination (Page 11)
      2. Certification and decertification procedures (Page 13)
   4. Scope of Representation (Page 14)
      1. General provisions (Page 14)
      2. Specific exclusions relating to academic senates: U.C. vs. CSU (Page 15)
      3. Determination of negotiability of subjects (Page 16)
      4. MOU precedence over conflicting statutory provisions (Page 17)
   5. Unfair Practices (Page 18)
      1. Duty to bargain (Page 19)
      2. Unilateral change (Page 21)
      3. Discrimination (Page 22)
      4. Duty of fair representation (Page 23)
      5. Access (Page 24)
   6. Enforcement (Page 24)
      1. PERB 24 (Page 24)
      2. Grievance arbitration (Page 25)
      3. Deferral to arbitration by PERB (Page 26)
      4. Organizational Security (Page 27)
      5. Recission and reinstatement of agency fees (Page 28)
      6. Conscientious objectors (Page 29)
      7. Dispute Settlements and Strikes (Page 30)
      8. Impasse procedure (Page 30)
      9. Strikes (Page 31)
      10. Public Notice (Page 32)
2. Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (Page 42)
3. Major PERB and Court Decisions (Page 87)
   1. Agency Shop (Page 88)
   2. Agreements and Contracts (Page 91)
   3. Arbitration of Grievances (Page 93)
   4. Discrimination for, or Interference With, Protected Activity (Page 94)
   5. Domination of, or Interference With, Union (Page 97)
   6. Dues Deduction (Page 99)
   7. Duty of Fair Representation (Page 99)
   8. Duty to Bargain in Good Faith (Page 102)
   9. Employee Status (Page 108)
   10. Exclusive Representative, Certification or Decertification Elections (Page 110)
   11. Impasse Resolution Procedures (Page 112)
   12. Protected Activity (Page 115)
   13. Public Employment Relations Board Jurisdiction (Page 118)
   14. Public Notice (“Sunshine Law”) (Page 123)
   15. Representation Rights (Page 124)
   16. Scope of Bargaining (Page 127)
   17. Strikes and Job Actions (Page 130)
   18. Unilateral Action (Page 133)
   19. Unit Determination (Page 137)
4. PERB Regulations and Sources of Information (Page 140)
   1. PERB Regulations (Page 140)
   2. General provisions (Page 140)
   3. Unfair practices (Page 141)
   4. Injunctions (Page 142)
   5. Representation procedures (Page 142)
   6. Impasse resolution (Page 142)
   7. Public notice (Page 143)
   8. Agency shop (Page 143)
   9. Sources of Information on PERB (Page 143)
5. Glossary of Terms (Page 146)
6. Table of Cases (Page 156)
7. Index (Page 172)