Beloit Education Ass'n v. Employment Relations Commission

This is an appeal by a school board and by a teachers5 association from a circuit court judgment. That judgment modified and affirmed a ruling of the state employment relations commission. That ruling declared the rights of the school board as employer and of the teachers’ association as collective bargaining agent under sec. 111.70 (1) (d), Stats.

The statute. This statute (sec. 111.70 (1) (d), Stats.), establishing the right of “collective bargaining” in the public sector in this state, provides as follows:

“(d) ‘Collective bargaining’ means the performance of the mutual obligation of a…