July 7, 2008

STATE APPEALS JUDGE’S CONTRACTING OUT RULING

6/26/08

The state has appealed the Federation’s court victory against the new restrictive contracting out rules issued by the Department of General Administration.

The state June 20 filed to ask the state Court of Appeals to overturn the union victory that came last month in Thurston County Superior Court.

That lower court ruled May 9 that GA exceeded the power given to it by the Legislature when it wrote the offending rules spelling out which employees could offer alternatives to contracting out or who could bid for projects through “Employee Business Units.”

The appeals court has set no hearing date.

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