Ruling Put Off in Dispute Between City, Police
A Superior Court judge has postponed a ruling in a labor dispute between the Long Beach police union and city management, while indicating that she will side with the city.
The 610-member Long Beach Police Officers Assn. is trying to stop the city from imposing a new contract without the union’s consent. But at a Los Angeles court hearing Thursday, Judge Dzintra Janavs disagreed with the union’s arguments, saying federal case law supported the city’s actions.
She decided however, that the city had not given the union adequate notice that it was going to declare an impasse in the 9-month-old bargaining talks and adopt its final contract offer. Dzintra told the city to give the union its final contract position to allow the membership to vote on it before the next court hearing. In the meantime, the city has agreed not to implement the provisions of the new contract.
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