PERB

PERB, is an acronym for the California Public Employment Relations Board. This state government agency is charged with overseeing emloyer-employee relations. In it's capacity as overseer, the Board promulgates Regulations designed to carry out laws passed by the California legislature and signed by the governor of the great state of Kalifornia.

PERB Board members are appointed by the governor for five year terms. Governor Gray Davis appointed Board members that had extensive knowledge of union issues, in fact, they were all former high ranking union officials. Their terms have all expired. Governor Schwarzenneger has appointed four new people to this Board.

PERB is structured in the following fashion. You file a complaint and a Board agent in a regional office reads it, looks up precedent and then denies your complaint based on previous Board decisions, decisions made by a majority of former union officials. The newly comprised Board can review these precedents on appeal or upon requests for reconsideration and find an inconsistency with PERB regulations, lower court decisions or even U.S. Supreme Court decisions. While I am encouraged by the sense of justice that the Board has recently exhibited, it was less than full justice in my opinion.

If the Board denies an appeal, your case is not lost. You have the right to go to a higher court to appeal the PERB Board decision. In that case you will have to represent yourself pro se (on your own) or you may ask for help in representation. If you are dogged and determined enough, I can assist you in finding the proper representation. Freedom is not free and justice is just us, you have to work for it.