Tualatin Valley Bargaining Council v. Tigard School District 23J

This case is about workload. Workload has been treated by the Employment Relations Board (ERB), the administrative agency that is responsible for the collective bargaining law, ORS 243.650 et seq, as being an “other condition * * * of employment,” which is a subject for mandatory bargaining.1 ERB held that Tigard Education Association’s (Teachers) proposal to limit the number of students in classrooms and the number of handicapped and exceptionally gifted students assigned to individual teachers is a “workload” issue and, derivatively, an “other condition * * * of employment” about which…