Labor & Employment Law

Operating a ?coffee club? by the union on employer?s property

By Harvey Randall, Esq.

Operating a ?coffee club? by the union on employer?s property
Matter of Pittsford Central School Bus Drivers and Attendants? Association and Pittsford CSD, U26355, ALJ Doerr

The Association?s charge that the District violated Section 209a.1(d) of the Act when it replaced the Association sponsored profit-making ?coffee club,? which operated out of the ?break room,? with vending machines, was dismissed. ALJ Doerr ruled that the ?coffee club? constituted an Association activity on District property wholly unrelated to its representational rights and obligations under the Act and, therefore, did not constitute a term and condition of employment.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).