Crowley

The San Francisco Police Officers Association appeals from a judgment which denied relief upon its complaint for an injunction and a writ of mandate requiring respondents, the City and County of San Francisco, its mayor, board of supervisors, and police commission to give effect to certain agreements regulating the terms of service of San Francisco police officers. We reverse the judgment.

On April 17, 1974, appellants entered into an agreement with the mayor and the police commission of the City and County of San Francisco (hereinafter the commission). This “Memorandum of Understanding” was subsequently approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (resolution No. 374-74). The Police Officers Association agreed to “forego the power to strike in full or by slow-down or medical excuses” during the three-year term of the agreement in consideration of an arbitration procedure and other matters. The agreement also contained a “police officers’ bill of rights” and imposed a mutual obligation to meet and confer in good faith as to all police department employment conditions except “wages and employment conditions specifically governed by the Charter of the City and County…