A union election in Skagit County will go ahead in spite of attempts by the County administration to stop it.
The Public Employment Relations Commission ruled on April 21 that the election process should move forward.
The ruling by PERC comes more than a year after Council 2 first filed a petition for 22 members of the clerical support staff of the Skagit County prosecuting attorneys’ office to join the union. The County challenged the make-up of Council 2’s bargaining unit, claiming that the union is required to organize all of the other departments that were unrepresented and could not recruit only the support staff in the Prosecutor’s office.
Both parties presented their arguments to a perc hearing on September 4. Council 2 argued that there are already several independent departments represented in Skagit County by various unions.
The election was set for May 28.
