County Sanitation District No. 2 v. Los Angeles County Employees' Ass'n, Local 660

I respectfully dissent. In my view, public employees in this state neither have the right to strike, nor should they have that right. In any event, in light of the difficulty in fashioning proper exceptions to the basic “no strike” rule, and the dangers to public health and safety arising from even a temporary cessation of governmental services, the courts should defer to the Legislature, a body far better equipped to create such exceptions.

*610The majority paints a glowing picture of the public strike weapon as a means of “enhancing] labor-management relations” (ante, p. 581), “equalizing the…