Joint School District No. 8 v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board

This appeal raises two issues: (1) Is the school calendar a negotiable item under sec. 111.70 (2), Stats., and (2) were the requirements met which permit fact finding to be initiated under sec. 111.-70 (4) (e)?

Sec. 111.70, Stats., was created by eh. 509, Laws of 1959, as subchapter IV to ch. Ill dealing with employment relations, to regulate the relations between public employees and municipalities. It was one of the first, if not the first law, of its kind in the United States to comprehensively cover the relationship of municipal employers and employees. Although since 1939 Wisconsin has…