American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, Locals 626 & 2831 v. Lane County Board of Commissioners

This case is before us on a petition by the Employment Relations Board (ERB) for reconsideration of our opinion in AFSCME v. Lane County, 45 Or App 161, 607 P2d 1212 (1980). ERB asks us to remand the case to it for further consideration of a statutory issue.

In our former opinion, we reversed an order of ERB that declared a strike by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (the union) against Lane County to be in violation of the collective bargaining agreement between those parties. In so doing, we assumed that the ERB had determined that the strike was not in…