CITY OF SEATTLE
and
SEATTLE POLICE OFFICERS GUILD

DECISIONS 9957-A and 9958-A ( PECB)

Issue:   Did the employer commit an unfair labor practice when the Seattle City Council adopted amendments to the Seattle Municipal Code to provide the Office of Professional Accountability Review Board with un-redacted copies of closed complaints as part of that entity’s review process and changed that Board’s confidentiality obligations without first satisfying its collective bargaining obligation? 

The Commission reverses the Examiner’s decision that the employer committed an unfair labor practice.  The amendments to Seattle Municipal Code section 3.28.920 did not change mandatory subjects of bargaining.  The union’s complaints are dismissed.

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By:      Marilyn Glenn Sayan, Chairperson
Pamela G. Bradburn, Commissioner
Thomas W. McLane, Commissioner
October 6, 2009

Cases   20402-U-06-5196
20687-U-06-5271

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