Trustees of California State Colleges v. Local 1352, San Francisco State College Federation of Teachers

Respondent brought this action to enjoin a strike and related activities by employees of the State of California who work at San Francisco State College. Defendants appeal from a summary judgment enjoining such activities as prayed.

The undisputed facts include these: Respondent, a duly constituted agency of the State of California, is charged by law with the administration, management and control of the California State Colleges (including San Francisco State College, to which we hereinafter refer as the “college”). The academic employees at the college are employees of the State of California. Their wages, hours and working conditions are governed by statute and by regulations established by respondent. Some of them (including the natural persons who are defendants and appellants herein) belong to Local 1352, which is a labor union. (Local 1352, hereinafter the “union,” is also a defendant and appellant herein.) Through its representatives, and commencing in December 1969, the union and respondent carried on negotiations concerning some demands theretofore made by the union. Pursuant to a vote of its membership, the union conducted a strike at the college and…