Anaheim Elementary Education Ass'n v. Board of Education

Anaheim Elementary Education Association, CTA/NEA (the Association) appeals the denial of its petition for writ of mandate to compel the Board of Education of the Anaheim City School District (the District) to change its policy denying temporary certificated employees their statutory reemployment rights. The court found the Association had no standing to bring the action because the two named individuals were not members of the Association and denied the writ.

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The Association is an unincorporated organization of certificated teaching employees of the District. Pursuant to the Educational Employment Relations Act (Gov. Code, § 3540 et seq.), the Association is an “employee organization” and the “exclusive representative” of certificated teachers. (Gov. Code, § 3540.1, subds. (d) and (e).)

Heidi Chipman and Barbara Wamock were employed as temporary teachers for the entire 1981-1982 school year. During that school year, both teachers were dues paying members of California Teachers Association, the Association’s statewide affiliate, but did not pay dues to the Association. As temporary teachers, they were members of the bargaining unit of the District’s certificated…