Clackamas County Employees' Assn. v. Clackamas County

146 Argued and submitted July 8, reversed and remanded December 23, 2020 CLACKAMAS COUNTY EMPLOYEES’ ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Respondent. Employment Relations Board UP01018; A170373

480 P3d 993

Petitioner—a labor union—seeks judicial review of an Employment Relations Board (ERB) order dismissing its unfair labor practice claims under ORS 243.672(1)(a). ERB dismissed the claims after it determined that a union rep- resentative’s unprofessional email to a supervisor for which he was disciplined was not union advocacy protected by the statute. Petitioner contends that ERB’s…