Portland Fire Fighters' Ass'n v. City of Portland

Petitioner City of Portland (city) seeks judicial review of an order of the Employment Relations Board (ERB) that declared that the city committed an unfair labor practice (ULP) by failing to accept the terms of an arbitration award. In an earlier proceeding, an arbitrator had determined that, without just cause, the city had discharged a disabled firefighter on injury leave. In order to make him whole, the arbitrator had ordered the city to reinstate him to leave status and to pay him the equivalent of the disability benefits that he had lost some months before the discharge. Although the…