Service Employees International Union v. Superior Court

Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO and Service Employees International Union, Local 660 (together SEIU) challenge an Orange County Superior Court employee relations regulation requiring employees or an employee organization seeldng an election to decertify the exclusively recognized employee representative (i.e., incumbent union) to (1) submit a petition accompanied by the signatures of at least 50 percent of the employees in the bargaining unit, and (2) obtain these signatures within 30 days prior to the date the petition is submitted. (Orange County Superior Court Employee Relations Regulations, Part 5, Article XXV, Section 10 (Section 10).)

SEIU asks this court to issue a peremptory writ of mandate (1) prohibiting the Orange County Superior Court from enforcing Section 10 of its employee relations regulations; (2). requiring it to adopt reasonable signature requirements for future decertification petitions; (3) requiring it to conduct secret ballot elections pursuant to SEIU’s timely filed petitions which were accompanied by signatures from 30 percent of the employees in the general and court clerk bargaining units; and (4) prohibiting it from entering…