City of Hoquiam v. Public Employment Relations Commission

In these consolidated appeals, the City of Hoquiam seeks review of the Superior Court's quashing of a writ to prohibit an examiner with the Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) from conducting a hearing into a claim of an unfair labor practice brought by the Hoquiam firefighters union (Union). The Union, joined by PERC, appeals in turn from a later Superior Court judgment on appeal from the hearing examiner's decision on the merits, in which the court found it had jurisdiction and reversed the examiner. We vacate both judgments and remand the cause for a new administrative hearing.

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