Iowa State Education Ass'n—Iowa Higher Education Ass'n v. Public Employment Relations Board

HARRIS, Justice.

The public employment relations act gives employees of regents’ institutions, along with other state employees, the privilege of collective bargaining. Petitioner, a teachers’ union representing employees at Iowa regents’ institutions, contends that regents’ institution employees may bargain directly with the board of regents. The trial court, affirming the public employee relations board (PERB), determined, however, that these employees must bargain with the State of Iowa and not the regents. We affirm.

The privilege of collective bargaining is granted to state employees by…