Null v. City of Grandview

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff Null, firefighter captain, employed by the City of Grandview and president of Local No. 1786 of the International Association of Firefighters [an unincorporated voluntary labor organization of the firefighters of that municipality], brought suit — both as an individual and on behalf of the labor union firefighter class— for declaratory judgment that an ordinance enacted by the municipal Board of Aider-man was invalid for failure of the public body to meet and confer with the bargaining representative of the labor organization as required by the Public…