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THE 3RD DEPARTMENT ANNULLED THE DETERMINATION OF THE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS BOARD (PERB) WHICH FOUND THAT THE FIREFIGHTERS DID NOT DEMONSTRATE THE CITY FAILED TO NEGOTIATE BEFORE UNILATERALLY IMPOSING A SALARY REDUCTION (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), determined the city did not fulfill its obligation to negotiate a change in salary for its firefighters:

PERB acknowledged petitioners’ claims that the City made a unilateral determination to end the past practice of paying night differential, check-in pay and holiday pay in calculating regular wages and benefits to current employees should they receive General Municipal Law § 207-a (2) benefits in the future, but rejected those contentions upon the ground that petitioners had only documented the City’s intent to discontinue those payments with regard to retirees to whom it owed no duty to bargain. … The parties … orally stipulated at the hearing … that “those affected [by the City’s unilateral change in benefits] are those in the unit as of the alleged unilateral change,” necessarily referring to current employees who are members of the bargaining units rather than the retirees who are not … . The parties later reinforced that point by stipulating that the unilateral change was made “in a uniform[] fashion to all members of both bargaining units,” again using language necessarily referring to current employees to whom the City owes a duty to bargain. In the absence of any indication that counsel lacked authority to enter into those unambiguous factual stipulations or that some cause sufficient to invalidate a contract existed for setting the stipulations aside, they are binding  … . Thus, as the parties stipulated that the City’s unilateral actions impacted current employees in the bargaining units, PERB’s finding that the record was barren of proof on that point is not supported by substantial evidence, and it follows that PERB’s determination must be annulled … . Matter of Uniformed Fire Officers Assn. of the City of Yonkers v New York State Pub. Empl. Relations Bd., 2021 NY Slip Op 05144, Third Dept 9-30-21

 

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