City & County of San Francisco v. United Ass'n of Journeymen & Apprentices of the Plumbing & Pipefitting Industry of the United States & Canada

Opinion

BROUSSARD, J.

In County Sanitation Dist. No. 2 v. Los Angeles County Employees Assn. (1985) 38 Cal.3d 564 [214 Cal.Rptr. 424, 699 P.2d 835], certiorari denied, — U.S. — [88 L.Ed.2d 359], (hereafter County Sanitation), we held that a public employees’ strike is illegal only if it poses an imminent threat to public health or safety. (P. 592.) Our opinion specifically reserved the question whether an employer could recover damages *812in tort for an illegal strike. (Id., at p. 592, fn. 40.)1 We address that question today, and conclude that, until the Legislature provides otherwise, the…