Communications Workers of America, Local 3170 v. City of Gainesville

Believing that PERC correctly determined that it lacked jurisdiction to determine whether the incorporation into the parties’ collective bargaining agreement of the City’s proposed drug testing program would violate constitutional or statutory rights of the employees, I respectfully dissent. The Communications Workers of America, Local 3170, filed four separate unfair labor practice charges against the City of Gainesville, and the City filed one such charge against the Union, all stemming from collective bargaining efforts in 1995. The disputed issue was the incorporation of a drug testing…