Sacramento County Employees Organization v. County of Sacramento

This is an appeal from an order denying a preliminary injunction in an action brought by plaintiffs to enjoin defendant county and its officers from deducting dues only from the salaries and wages of members of recognized employee organizations, and to require defendants to deduct dues for all employees upon request.

Plaintiffs and interveners are employee organizations representing various groups of Sacramento County employees. Defendants are the County of Sacramento and various named officers of the county. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), Sacramento County Employees Local 146, AFL-CIO, hereafter referred to as “intervener,” intervened on behalf of defendants and is a respondent herein.*

Pursuant to section 3507 of the Government Code, the County of Sacramento in April of 1970 adopted an employee relations ordinance. That ordinance sets forth a procedure for employee organizations to seek the determination of representation units to qualify as the recognized employee organization with respect to a unit and thereby become the exclusive representative for meeting and conferring with the county on behalf of the employees in that…