Anderson v. Los Angeles County Employee Relations Commission

Opinion

ORTEGA, J.

In this case of first impression, we must decide whether it is an unfair labor practice under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (Gov. Code, § 3500 et seq., hereinafter the MMBA) and Los Angeles County Employee Relations Ordinance 9646 (hereinafter County Ordinance), for an employee organization to deny reinstatement to a former member who was expelled for dual unionism. We conclude the MMBA and the County Ordinance do not preclude a union from defending itself in this manner, and that the union’s action in this case was reasonable. We affirm the judgment denying the petition for…