Labor & Employment Law

Nonmandatory subjects of collective bargaining and interest arbitration

By Harvey Randall, Esq.

Nonmandatory subjects of collective bargaining and interest arbitration
City of Syracuse and Syracuse Firefighters Association Local 280, PERB U27053

The City of Syracuse complained that Local 280 violated §209a.2(b) of the Taylor Law by submitting nonmandatory items to interest arbitration. PERB Administrative Law Judge Doerr agreed, in part, and Local 280 was directed to withdraw a severable portion of a proposal that was nonmandatory in nature and sufficiently unrelated to the contract provision allegedly being altered so that it did not convert under Cohoes.

Local 280 was also directed to withdraw a proposal it submitted to interest arbitration that the ALJ found was unitary in nature.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).