Court Opinion

ID: 9726670
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 13:03:23.237843+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:29.683555
License: Public Domain

Spencer, J.,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion herein. I agree that supervisory employees have a right to organize and to be members of a union. I disagree, however, that supervisory employees should be permitted to join a union composed of all other employees. To *697permit this action is to deny the city the control that can and should be exercised by supervisory employees.
In my opinion, the action of the Court of Industrial Relations permits too great a conflict of interest. What is the position of a captain or a lieutenant who recommends disciplinary action against an employee, in this case a firefighter, when both are members of the same union and the union decides, rightly or wrongly, to support the employee? I don’t see under this situation how the interest of the city can be protected. The interest of the public is subordinated to the interest of the union. It seems to me the action is absurd when by the simple expedient of permitting the supervisory employees to organize their own union this conflict could be avoided.