Wakshull v. Helsby

This is a proceeding under CPLR article 78 (transferred to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court by order of the Supreme Court, Albany County) to review a decision of the Public Employment Relations Board which, in a representation status dispute, established a State-wide employer-employee negotiating unit for professional employees of the State University of New York.

Following the enactment of the Public Employees’ Fair Employment Act (Civil Service Law, art. 14; L. 1967, ch. 392) the State of New York, as employer, defined three negotiating units for its employees, one of which was…