Building Material & Construction Teamsters' Union v. Farrell

I respectfully dissent. The majority hold that the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA) requires local public agencies to “meet and confer” with representatives of the recognized employee bargaining unit before eliminating employment positions in that unit and reassigning the duties of *669those positions to employees outside the unit. In my view, the MMBA is inapplicable to such managerial decisions, and I fear that imposing the act’s requirements in such situations will unduly burden the day-to-day operation of state and local governmental entities.

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