Bodanza v. Public Employment Relations Board

OPINION OF THE COURT

Lawrence E. Kahn, J.

In the above-captioned article 78 proceeding, petitioner seeks a judgment annulling a determination of the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) in case No. U-7684, dated January 2, 1985.

Petitioner is a professor employed by the State University of New York. As such, he is required to pay an agency shop fee to the United University Professions, Inc., as his designated bargaining unit. An agency fee equal to the amount of union dues otherwise payable is deducted from petitioner’s salary. Petitioner applied for a refund of that portion of the fee which…