DSHS guilty of Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) over contracting out at Lakeland Village

The full Public Employment Relations Commission has overturned its own hearing examiner and ruled that the Department of Social and Health Services did in fact commit an unfair labor practice when it contracted out cottage remodeling work at Lakeland Village in Medical Lake in 2004. That action took work away from Local 573 members in DSHS Consolidated Support Services. PERC’s April 25 decision orders DSHS to bargain with the Federation over the decision to contract out bargaining unit work.