State v. City of Petersburg

*264OPINION

BOOCHEVER, Justice.

On June 7, 1972, the Governor of the State of Alaska approved the Public Employment Relations Act (hereinafter PERA) which conferred upon public employees the right to organize and to bargain collectively with their employers, and correspondingly required public employers to recognize collective bargaining units formed under the PERA.1 The actual effective date of the PERA was September 5, 1972.2 Of particular concern in this case is a provision whereby the legislative body of any political subdivision of the state may reject the Act thereby preventing its…