State board dismisses police union complaint against Clark County School District
The state’s Local Government Employee-Management Relations Board has sided with the Clark County School District in a complaint filed by its police officers union charging that the district engaged in prohibited labor practices.
In its complaint, the Police Officers Association last month claimed the district made a “unilateral change” to when it suspended all advancement, salary or benefit increases for union members in July 2015 after an existing employment contract expired on June 30.
Negotiating teams for the parties had failed to agree on a new contract. Senate Bill 241, which Gov. Brian Sandoval signed into law last year, prevents the automatic renewal of public employee contracts before a successor agreement is in place.
The Employee-Management Relations Board, a three-person state entity that oversees public employers and their unions, issued an order dated July 1 ruling the police officers union “shall take nothing” from the district.
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