Williams v. Public Employment Relations Board

*1122Opinion

WOODS, J.

—Melanie Stallings Williams and Demosthenes Andrew Halcoussis are professors at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and are members of the faculty bargaining unit. The California Faculty Association (CFA) is the exclusive representative of the faculty bargaining unit pursuant to the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act (HEERA).1 (Gov. Code,2 § 3560 et seq.) PERB is the agency charged with interpreting and administering HEERA. (§ 3563.)

Appellants filed claims with PERB alleging that their federal and state constitutional rights were violated when CFA…