San Francisco Unified School District (PERB J003E)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA
DECISION OF THE EDUCATIONAL
EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD
BOARD OF EDUCATION OF
THE SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT,
Employer, PETITIONER,
and
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS,
LOCAL 960, SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS
DIVISION,
Employee Organization,
and
UNITED ADMINISTRATORS OF SAN FRANCISCO,
Employee Organization,
and
SAN FRANCISCO CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION,
CALIFORNIA TEACHERS ASSOCIATION,
Employee Organization,
and
SAN FRANCISCO FEDERATION OF TEACHERS,
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO,
Employee Organization.
Case No. SF-R-419
EERB Decision No. 23
EERB Order No. JR-3
December 21, 1977
ORDER DECLINING REQUEST
TO JOIN IN JUDICIAL REVIEW
Pursuant to Government Code Section 3542(a)(1), the Educational Employment
Relations Board hereby declines request of petitioner in the above-captioned
case to join in judicial review of EERB unit determination decision #23.
The Board finds that the petitioner has an unfair practice remedy available.
Educational Employment Relations Board
by
STEPHEN BARBER
Executive Assistant to the Board
Jerilou H. Cossack, Member, concurring.
I agree with my colleagues that we should not join in the request for
judicial review. However, the fact that the employer may resort to the unfair

practice procedures by refusing to negotiate with the duly selected exclusive
representative plays no part in my decision. As I stated in Grossmont Union
High School District,1
A primary purpose of administrative agencies is to
provide a method for adjudicating and resolving disputes
without resort to the already crowded courts. This
Board is expected to make difficult and precedential
decisions to facilitate an orderly and efficient system
of public school employer-employee relations. If every
major unit decision is certified for judicial review,
we will become merely an additional level of bureaucracy
which must be gotten through prior to inevitable resort
to the courts.
I find nothing which renders this case one of "special importance."
Jerilou. H. Cossack, Member
1EERB Order No. JR-2, July 25, 1977.
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