Public employees: collective bargaining.

Existing law permits public school employees to form, join, and participate in the activities of employee organizations of their own choosing for the purpose of representation on all matters of employer-employee relations, as specified. Existing law permits an employee organization to become the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit for purposes of meeting and negotiating, as specified. In each case that the appropriateness of the unit is an issue, existing law requires the Public Employment Relations Board to decide the question on the basis of the community of interest between and among the employees and their established practices including, among other things, the extent to which those employees belong to the same employee organization and the effect of the size of the unit on the efficient operation of the school district. Existing law provides that in the case of a district that employs 20 or more supervisory peace officer employees, a negotiating unit of supervisory employees is appropriate if it includes any of specified supervisory employees. Existing law prohibits these supervisory employees from being in a negotiation unit with employees whom they supervise. This bill would permit a supervisory peace officer employee to join or participate in an employee organization and negotiating unit that is composed of nonsupervisory peace officers if the representation has been agreed to by the supervisory employee representative, the nonsupervisory peace officer representative, and the employer and the Public Employment Relations Board is so notified.