City of Pasco v. Public Employment Relations Commission

The issue is whether an optional grievance procedure for review of disciplinary actions is a mandatory subject of collective bargaining between the City of Pasco (City) and the Pasco Police Officers Association (Union).

This question arises from uncontested facts. The City and the Union were negotiating a successor collective bargaining agreement. The Union proposed a grievance procedure. The proposal, set out in the appendix, would give employees the option of appealing disciplinary actions through the contractual grievance procedure rather than through an appeal to the Civil Service…